Strong winds and rain damaged the church and rendered the convent useless during the typhoon that happened on May 10, 1896.

Two years after the tragic event, Augustinians handed the church over to the secular priests who have given assistance to the natives since the evangelization started.

[1] On January 25, 1948, the church was severely damaged when the Lady Caycay earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2 struck the whole of Panay Island.

[1] Also recovering from World War II, the church reconstruction only went underway during the 1950s with an addition of a separate bell tower and other supplementary buildings.

Life of the saint is depicted through these stained windows which include his birth, his baptism, the apparition of the Virgin Mary to him, and his death.