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Virgen dela Rosa de Makati In the highly urbanized City of Makati where commerce thrives in and it became the country's urban jungle, one might miss out the fact that it was once a quiet town were before the high rise towers, there were all rice fields as source of livelihood in the old San Pedro de Macati (Makati's old name). In the peak of the city, the town of Poblacion, lies one of the oldest church of the city, the Parish of Sts. Peter and Paul which houses the city's longstanding Patroness, the miraculous image of Virgen de la Rosa. This unique sobriquet of the Virgin can only be found in Makati and she have showered her loving protection of the city for centuries and became the silent witness of Makati's history and development. The image The miraculous image of Virgen de la Rosa was a de vestir image of the Blessed Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus in one arm while holding a rose in another. The devotion to the Virgin of the Rose might be traced back...

The original image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Intramuros "No mas amor que el tuyo, O corazon divino, El pueblo Filipino, Te da su corazon. En templos y en hogares, Te invoque nuestra lengua, Tu reinaras sin mengua de Aparri hasta Jolo." (Translation: "There is no greater love than yours, O Most Sacred Heart, so we, the Filipino people, offer you our hearts. In our temples and in our homes, we cry out to you. May Your kingdom stand firm from Aparri to Jolo." ). This old hymn, for decades, is the hymn of the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the devotion to His Heart in the country is proven to be strong and prominent up to this day. In every Filipino Catholic home, images of the Sacred Heart made from myriad of different materials is the most prominent image in the altars. Almost all Churches and Chapels in the country have an image of Him venerated in its own altar and the First Friday devotions are strictly observed and several parishes were dedic...