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Nuestra Señora de la Escalera de Nasugbu In the mountainous area of Nasugbu, Batangas where beaches, summer hot spots and retreat houses were scattered all over the area, there was this church of significant importance yet very few people, even the locals that they overlooked for years. The parish of St. Francis Xavier houses the miraculous image of Nuestra Señora de la Escalera de Nasugbu - the only Marian image  with such Marian sobriquet in the country. The image The image of Nuestra Señora de la Escalera is a de vestir image of the Blessed Virgin Mary dressed in embroidered vestments and wears an Imperial crown and holds a scepter - an allusion to her Queenship. The hands of the Virgin were like those of the stance of the typical images of the Immaculate Concepcion, like those of Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Buen Viaje, though the hands were more open as if she is a gesture of conversing with the beholder. The Virgin has a lovely expression as if she assures her love and ca

Mater Dolorosa of Nepomuceno Family of Pampanga Originally Written in Filipino by James Malabanan Translated and Edited by Billy Malacura Additional text by James Malabanan The Marian devotion in the Philippines is one of the trademarks of Philippine popular piety. The devotions to the Virgin as the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin of the Rosary and Our Mother of Perpetual Help was among the most popular. What we will be presented in this blogpost is one of the most popular and ancient in our country, the devotion to the Virgin as the Mother of Sorrows, the Mater Dolorosa. The popularity of the devotion to the Mater Dolorosa is one of clandestine yet noticeable with the proliferation of images of the Sorrowful Virgin in almost all parishes in the country, the women with the name "Dolores" and its variations, the popularity of shrines dedicated to in her honor that became center of pilgrimages and confradias , hermandades and associations dedicated to the devotion