It was a very beautiful church. The new one in Quezon City isn't the same -- not that it's ugly or anything, just different, though I can see that they were trying to imitate it.
Yeah, the Intramuros was almost completely razed by the Battle of Manila. It's a chapter often omitted from American history books on the war, but it was, in many ways, worse than the two atomic bombings in Japan. Very sad.
Thanks for sharing, Neopelagianus.