Visiting St. Bernard (Southern Leyte) will not be complete if you’ll miss to visit the Guisaugun cemetery.
I call it Guisaugun cemetery because thousands of people were buried here during the Guinsaugun tragedy on February 2006. The rescuer and body recovery volunteers failed to recover thousands of bodies trapped by mad and rocks coming from the collapsed portion of the mountain.
If you still remember, the whole village of Barangay Guisaugun was buried. Only those villagers who were out of the village were saved. Visitors and villagers present in the village during the tragedy were all buried alive.
The teachers (one of them was a classmate of my girlfriend) trapped inside the classroom were sending messages to their relatives to save them. But then rescuer failed to locate them because of some reasons like: they were buried by mad as high as the tallest coconut tree, rain hinders the rescuers in digging, their exact location was not located, etc.
Guinsaugun Cross
The mountain wherein part of it collapsed
and buried the whole village of Guinsaugun.
