The National Shrine of Saint Michael and the Archangels, commonly known as San Miguel Church, is a Roman Catholic church located on the corner of Jose Laurel Street and General Solano Street in the San Miguel district of Manila, Philippines.
[3] Presidents who have worshipped at the shrine include Carlos P. García, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and Fidel V. Ramos (who was Protestant).
[3] It is also notably the only Catholic church in the country where priests (instead of bishops) have canonical dispensation to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation twice a week.
On May 1, 1954, Ilocos Norte representative and later President Ferdinand E. Marcos married beauty queen Imelda Romuáldez in the shrine (at the time still Manila’s pro-cathedral).
[8] Archbishop Gabriel M. Reyes, the archdiocese's first native Filipino ordinary who reigned from 1949 to 1952, was initially buried in the shrine before his remains were transferred to the crypt of Manila Cathedral.