Aired (March 26, 2024): Bukod sa mga antique na aparador, pinggan at laruan, kinahiligan din ni Eddie Gamo ang pagkolekta ng mga lumang gamit sa simbahan at antigong santo. Silipin ‘yan sa video.
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00:00 Ma'am, Anjo, you know people have different tastes.
00:02 There's one who's always going out.
00:05 Who is that?
00:06 I don't know, it's like you're right.
00:07 You're right, it's summer time.
00:09 But there's also one who's just at home
00:10 and likes to collect random things.
00:14 You know what, Anjo?
00:15 People usually collect new things, right?
00:19 But there are also people who are waiting to get old
00:21 and buy things that don't seem to be profitable
00:25 even at an expensive price, like sato.
00:28 Tina Pangaliban Perez has this story.
00:31 Old pictures that are no longer noticed by most.
00:38 Things that seem to be decaying
00:41 and seem to be out of date.
00:43 Some of them are images of saints
00:46 that represent faith.
00:49 But when they are torn apart,
00:51 this is what the collector, Eddie, is waiting for.
00:55 (soft music)
00:58 Eddie's love for not just antique devices,
01:02 like CDs and toys.
01:05 His house is full of images of small and large saints
01:10 and old items from the Church.
01:13 After my mother passed away,
01:16 my father also liked to collect antique saints.
01:23 If I earn money, I will buy the things I want.
01:26 I will go around collecting them.
01:27 I bought the saints first
01:29 because I also like religious objects.
01:33 Eddie often searches for antique saints online.
01:37 He also visits old houses
01:41 to buy things there.
01:42 As time goes by,
01:43 you read and research.
01:46 My knowledge and the things I want expand.
01:50 The importance of antique images of saints is not simple.
01:54 In the retail, there are 1, 5, up to 6 digits.
02:00 There are large ones, 50 to 80.
02:03 There are also medium-sized or small ones.
02:07 They are more expensive, around 200 to 300.
02:11 It depends on the age,
02:13 the beauty of the saint,
02:16 the provenance, the origin.
02:19 And the material used.
02:22 Of course, the first thing I can afford is small,
02:25 the cheap ones.
02:26 Of course, when you have a budget,
02:29 you buy expensive and larger saints
02:32 because it also upgrades your passion or what you want.
02:36 Eddie has bought antique saints
02:39 that are without hands,
02:40 broken,
02:41 or damaged in painting and body.
02:44 But for Eddie,
02:45 this is what gives beauty to his collections.
02:50 The first thing I bought that is still with me,
02:53 Mother and Child.
02:55 Now, its wood is broken,
02:57 but it's still with me.
02:59 We restore the broken ones.
03:02 I let the others as is
03:06 because when it's antique,
03:07 it's not good to move it or restore it
03:10 because its value can be damaged.
03:13 And that's why you bought it when you first saw it.
03:15 The damage, the wear and tear of the item,
03:18 that's when you fall in love.
03:20 You should know that according to the Catholic Church,
03:23 the broken images of saints
03:25 need to be burned or buried
03:28 if it cannot be fixed
03:30 according to Fr. Francis Lucas.
03:33 All images,
03:34 as long as they are wet with holy water or blessed water,
03:38 it's sacred.
03:39 The best thing to do is
03:41 to burn it and bury the ashes
03:45 so that it can be quickly combined with the soil.
03:49 The best thing to do is to do it
03:52 in the compound of the Church
03:53 or in the Catholic cemeteries
03:56 because the Catholic cemeteries
03:58 have a lot of soil.
04:01 The images or sacramentals,
04:04 if we call them,
04:05 that are metal,
04:06 bury them.
04:08 Eddie's faith became his influence
04:11 to make his collections more expensive.
04:13 Mostly, that's why they buy them
04:16 because that's what they want to pray for.
04:20 You know, you're going through something in life.
04:22 What you want is to pray.
04:24 Not all saints need to earn money.
04:27 Sometimes, what I do,
04:29 "Do you have a table or items that you don't want anymore?
04:32 Can we swap?
04:34 I'll add more."
04:35 Of course, as a collector,
04:37 I can't pray for all of that.
04:39 Some of these people
04:41 have already buried in their local chapels.
04:44 What's extraordinary about the old saints
04:48 is that you know that the color has faded,
04:51 the wood is gone.
04:53 And also, the connection to the past.
04:58 You can see that in the saints.
05:00 The one in the chapel,
05:03 the one in Virgen de la Rosa,
05:05 the big one,
05:06 because she's my patron saint.
05:08 We have a problem, we have wishes.
05:10 I request her,
05:14 "Help me with this.
05:15 Give me back my love in life."
05:18 That's the love that Virgen de la Rosa gave me.
05:23 There are also various stories of ancient images in Eddie's house,
05:27 like the two images of St. Paul.
05:30 Since I was buy and sell back then,
05:32 I didn't have that much money,
05:34 I sold it.
05:36 That's our patron saint in this town.
05:38 I looked for her.
05:39 Eventually,
05:41 someone offered me a loan.
05:44 But it was more expensive,
05:45 the price was three times more than what I had sold.
05:48 I bought her.
05:49 The time came,
05:50 someone sold me St. Paul,
05:53 the first Hermit in the Church Of Christ,
05:54 the one in Luzon.
05:55 That's how my personal collection became.
05:58 He also sold an image back then
06:00 and he looked for it again
06:02 to return it to his collection.
06:04 I sold the image, but only the body,
06:06 without the hands.
06:07 When I saw the picture, I said,
06:09 "This is beautiful."
06:10 So I looked for it again and again.
06:12 When I saw it again, it was already complete.
06:14 It had arms,
06:15 it had the cross that was holding it.
06:19 There was no money involved.
06:21 I just bought a more expensive and better crucifix.
06:25 Through images,
06:27 he reminds us of the good deeds
06:30 and sacrifices of the saints back then.
06:32 As a Catholic,
06:33 it's nice to buy
06:35 a vintage, pre-war, or antique saint
06:38 because it's part of the culture and history.
06:42 Even if the origin of the saints is different,
06:45 you can still see the beauty.
06:48 It's nice to feel that
06:49 the part of the past
06:52 is just beside you.
06:53 The image is not God.
06:58 If it's not an image,
06:59 God is not in the image.
07:02 Our faith in God
07:05 is often lost.
07:06 The sense of the sacred.
07:08 In the Church Of Christ's Church Of Christ,
07:11 faith in God,
07:13 even if it's past,
07:15 should not be old and lost.
07:19 I'm Tina Panganiban Perez,
07:21 and that is the story you need to know.
07:24 (music)
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