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Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Malate - Manila's sought after Remedy

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Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Malate In the historic scenery near Manila Bay, where the waves of the bay crash against the rocks of Manila Coast nestles the modern Roxas Boulevard and its booming business, restaurants and shops that comprises the modern Manila Metropolis. However, amidst the modern scenery, there is an age old Church stood within these areas where mothers use to flock for cure of their post childbirth ailments and other miracles that are attributed to its felicitous patroness - Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Malate. The Virgin of Remedies venerated in Malate is one of the most celebrated Marian devotions in the country and people flock her church, most especially during her festival in the month of November to seek refuge and remedy to their physical and spiritual ailment and the Virgin in turn did not turn a deaf ear and continuously shower them with miracles up to the present. Our Lady of Remedies was the title given to our Blessed Virgin Mary by the dev

Nuestra Señora de la Soledad de Porta Vaga - the Queen of Cavite

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Nuestra Señora de la Soledad de Porta Vaga In the province of Cavite, located in Southern Luzon area, there lies a church in Cavite City, then known as Cavite Puerto where it has been, and still is, the center of pilgrimage in the whole province and outside, including Metro Manila and other provinces for the parish San Roque in Cavite City is the home of the famous Patroness of the Cavite - Nuestra Señora de la Soledad de Porta Vaga, the undisputed Queen of Cavite. For Caviteños, the Soledad will always be part of their lives for tremendous miracles were attributed through her intercession and it is no wonder that in almost every home in Cavite, altars and doorsteps are not complete without an image of the Soledad either in print, sculpture, reliefs and other media. The icon has received several titles in its history, including "Queen of Cavite" and "Exalted Patroness and the Celestial Guardian and Protectress of the Province of Cavite and its Port" (Spanish