A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol on a Tuesday morning in 2013, and 222 people died. The churches at Loboc and Baclayon were coral stone, blocks cut from the reef and carried up by hand generations ago, bound with lime and egg; a good deal of that came down in seconds. Afterward masons and parishioners sorted the rubble and numbered the blocks, one at a time, so each could go back where it had been.
Several of those parishes went on holding Mass in tents and under tarpaulins in the open beside the ruins, week after week, while the sorting went on. Baclayon's congregation had been gathering on that spot since the sixteenth century.
A fresh scarp came up across northern Bohol that day, a low step in the fields you could walk along, and the hills above the towns let go in landslides. Some of the inland springs shifted too, and a few dried up for good.