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Kristong Hari

The man who believes he is God.

Kristong Hari.

The man who believes he is God.

Kristong Hari.

The man who believes he is God.

Kristong Hari.

The man who believes he is God.

 

  
 

Kristong Hari.

The man who believes he is God.

Kristong Hari.

The man who believes he is God.

In his house Kristong Hari is suddenly possessed by the Holy Child (Santo Niño).     

Kristong Hari (Christ King).

The man who believes he is God.

 

Mr. Lauro Gonzales better known as Kristong Hari was born in Sampaloc, Manila on March 29,1937.  He started his career as an actor and played in numerous movies where he often played the role of a bad guy. One of the roles he cherishes and fondly remembers was that of a sex maniac who attempted to rape bold star Stella Suarez. His most famous movies are Tinik ng Pag-Ibig; Panagimpam; Kadiong Ngiti and Mister Burot.

Kristong Hari when he was younger with his wife.  

His career as an actor made him quite rich and he was able to start a number of businesses. Alas he was not very successful as a businessman and he lost all his money to dubious business partners. From then on his life went rapidly downwards. He lost all his money and friends, his wife died and his children neglected him. Around that time you could find him wandering around Quiapo as a poor man, hungry and abandoned by everyone. It was the saddest period of his life.

In 1981 a miracle happened and Jesus Christ (Senior Nazareno) took mercy on him and took possession of his body. From then on Lauro Gonzales became Kristong Hari (Christ King) and started a new life as the living Christ. He was bestowed by powerful healing powers and was able to change his voice at will in a small shrill voice which resembles one of a child. Kristong Hari explains that this is the voice of Jesus, the Santo Niño. With the help of donations he was able to purchase his trademark colourful dress of a king.

Kristong Hari lives with his followers in a small wooden house in a compound in Quezon City. There with his loyal followers he waits for people who want to be healed from their illness. Kristong Hari never asks for money in exchange for his healing services but accepts donations. Every Wednesday you can find him near Baclaran Church and Friday he sits in front of Quiapo Church ready to bless and heal. 

Kristong Hari's house in Quezon City.  

His most loyal followers are Brother Abe, Salome, Salvacion, Maria and Rita. Kristong Hari rewarded their devotion by elevating their status into saints. Abe became the "Kordero" or the Chosen One, while Salome became Santa Salome, Maria, Santa Maria,etc. All of them attest of Kristong Hari’s healing powers and they declare that this is the reason why they decided to devote their lives for him. They strongly believe he is the living God.

Kristong Hari contacted every single President of the Philippines since Marcos to ask them to help him financially so that he could avert the end of the world and especially save the Philippines from destruction. To his disappointment he never got any response and he explains that this is the reason why the Philippines is confronted by so many problems. He also told me he dreamed of a white man who would come to help him financially and save the Philippines from devastation. 

Even though people regularly visits him to get his blessing and to avail of his healing powers he remains poor. Last time I visited him in his compound the electricity was cut because he was not able to pay his bills. 

Kristong Hari is actively looking to sell his life story to a movie producer. He already wrote the movie script. 

Kristong Hari is a charming man and one of the most colourful persons in Quiapo. Don’t hesitate to give him a donation next time you see him in Quiapo. He is now one of my friends. 

Source and info: Dennis Villegas. 

Hand painted movie billboards & old movie houses.

Lider (formerly Ginto) - along Quezon Boulevard.

 

Times -along Quezon Boulevard.

The Times Theatre was designed by Architect Luis Z. Araneta. It was erected in 1939, with a Art Moderne relief ( a late type of the Art Deco design style which emerged during the 1930s. Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements). Unmaintained today, the theater is still operational, and can accommodate 800 people with its single screen operations.

  

Hand painted movie billboards & old movie theaters.

Dilson - along Claro M. Recto Avenue.

 

Serbis:

Serbis is an independent film by Brillante Mendoza, starring Gina Pareño and RP’s prince of indie movies Coco Martin. It was invited to the official competition of the 61st Cannes Festival in France and was regarded as the most controversial in Cannes for the year 2008.

Three generations of Pinedas live together under one roof, but they're no bland advertisement for family values: They share that roof with the rundown porn theatre they own and manage, and their lives are almost as racy as the movies they show.

Grandmother Nanay Flor (Gina Pareno) holds the unruly clan together, but her fortitude has been sorely tried. Where the Pinedas once owned a modest chain of three cinemas, they're now down to one, the oh-so-ironically named Family, which barely pays for itself. The drains back up, there are holes in the walls and the Pinedas regularly borrow from the local moneylender to pay their creditors; if it weren't for the hustlers, giggling queens and lady-boys who do business in the darkened auditorium, the theatre would be long gone. Flor's bigamy suit against her estranged husband, Edwin—who started a new family without bothering to divorce her—is proceeding with excruciating slowness and eroding both Flor's coffers and her spirit.

Daughter Nayda (Jaclyn Jose), who handles the day-to-day running of the theatre, wonders why she bothered to get a nursing degree and wishes she hadn't been forced to marry Lando (Julio Diaz) because she was pregnant with their beloved, if bratty, son. He's a decent man and a good father, but Nayda has a secret crush on her cousin, Ronald (Kristofer King), whom Flor took in and hired as a projectionist. Flor also found a job and a room for Alan (Coco Martin), who paints the theatre's gaudy signs. But he's gotten himself into a fine mess: His girlfriend (Mercedes Cabral) is pregnant and he doesn't want to marry her. Adopted daughter Jewel (Roxanne Jordan), not yet in high school, dreamily admires her own naked flesh and hangs out with the she-males in the lobby: That's not going to end well. Are the Family and the family really worth the heartache?

Though a handful of frank sequences scandalized some reviewers, Serbis is hardly pornography: The sex scenes are furtive, unglamorous and abbreviated, an integral part of hardscrabble, impoverished lives in which every pleasure comes at a price. It's not for all tastes, but it's hardly a dirty movie. 

Source: Film Journal International. 
 

Hand painted movie billboards & old movie theaters.

Hollywood - along Claro M. Recto Avenue.

Roben - Along Claro M. Recto Avenue.

Vista - along Claro M. Recto Avenue.