[1] In 1577, two Franciscan priests—Fray P. San Juan de Placencia and Fray Diego Oropesa—established a church in Lumban in their efforts to Christianize the natives of areas outside Manila.

[3] In 1669, a request from native elites to the Franciscans was granted with an order which decreed the creation of the convento of Longos, indicating the establishment of the town.

[11] In 1995, super typhoon Rosing ravaged the Southern Tagalog region of the Philippines,[12] which badly damaged the roof of the church.

[3] One of the more unusual features of the church is the Botafumeiro, a swinging thurible hung on large metal arches inscribed with verses from the song of Zechariah.

[3] In 1694, a supposed miracle surrounding the arrival of the image of the Immaculate Concepcion to the church was documented by the parish priest and the signed by the local members of the principalia who witnessed the event.

Furthermore, a parishioner who was attacked and dragged by a crocodile into the Laguna de Bay, prayed to God and the Virgin Mary was claimed to be saved by a mysterious woman who resembles the image that arrived in the church.

The current church devotion to the Virgin Mary is found in their reverence to the Nuestra Señora Dela Paz (arrived 1865), considered to be their secondary patron, with her fiesta being celebrated during May 20.