Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario de Coloong - The Catalyst of the Rosary devotion in Valenzuela City
Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario de Coloong The highly urbanized Valenzuela City is known by the majority as the location of two of its key Churches, the historic parish of San Diego de Alcala in Polo with its still existing bell tower - the lone survivor of the Second World War, and the famous National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. The latter became a popular pilgrimage site and the center of the devotion to Our Lady of Fatima to spread the devotion and importance of the Rosary and her message and exhortations for peace in the world and conversion of sinners. But if we look closely to the history of the Catholic faith in Valenzuela City, there was already a rosary center in the city with a unique image of Our Lady of the Rosary as the point of devotion in old Valenzuela City. The devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary of Coloong, Polo, Valenzuela spread throughout the city by means of a old pious practice that is performed by the month of October where it was brought to differ...