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Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu de Colegio de San Juan de Letran Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu de Colegio de San Juan de Letran For some Filipino faithful, the term "Aranzazu" is synonymous to the popular and miraculous Marian image venerated in San Mateo, Rizal where the Virgin, under this unique title is acclaimed as the Patroness of the Pueblo and succor against natural disasters since 1716. However, there were records and proofs that the devotion to Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu already existed in the Walled City of Intramuros before it was introduced to San Mateo, Rizal in 1716. For this blogpost, we are going to discover the story of then one of the venerated Marian images in Old Intramuros and how the devotion kept going in for the students, faculty and the Dominican friars of Colegio de San Juan de Letran. The image The image of Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu shows the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus in his arm holding a scepter, with an absence of an apple,...

"Ginintunag alaala" by Rafael del Casal Written by: Lourdes Syquia Bautista Published in Philippine Daily Inquirer on October 6, 2014 Editor's note: The Rosary month of October is one of the most celebrated months in our country due to the numerous festivities that are held nationwide in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. All of these celebrations, the Grand festivity of La Naval de Manila stood out as the most opulent and the grandest of them all - historically and culturally speaking. At present, the Virgin's fiesta and its iconic gala procession, dubbed as "Procesion de las Procesiones" [Procession of all Processions], is one of the most awaited and often copied in the country.  The vicaria of Our Lady of La Naval de Manila was used for the re-enactment of the Old Intramuros procession for the film remake of "Ang Larawan" While I was preparing for the annual festivities from wardrobe for the a...

The image El Glorioso San Jose of old San Nicolas Church in Intramuros that became a casualty of the Second World War. If  we can recall one of the previous blogposts here in Pintakasi about the venerated images of Intramuros that survived the ravages of the Second World War  either remained or left Intramuros either as venerated images in the relocated churches of the religious orders who brought them to the country or commissioned locally by our artisans or in some cases, museum pieces. As its fitting follow up on this unexpected trilogy on the Catholic Faith in Old Intramuros (Due to the response on the first article regarding the surviving images of Old Intramuros), we now focus on the images that were unfortunately destroyed during the Liberation of Manila. These images enjoyed much cult following during the Spanish regime and the Pre-War period and became part of the lives of every Manileños for centuries until the atrocities of the Second World War. These images ...

The old La Naval de Manila Procession in Intramuros years before the Second World War A depiction of Intramuros Whenever we pass the area of the Manila City Hall going to Quiapo-Tondo-Sampaloc area, we always see an imposing wall on the opposite side of the iconic City Hall - the famed centuries old walled city of Intramuros. The area of Intramuros (Which literally mean "Within the Walls") during the Spanish period was considered as Manila and the arrabals surrounding the walled city from Quiapo, Santa Ana, Santa Cruz, Sampaloc, Bagumbayan (now the Luneta area), Tondo, Binondo, Paco, Pandacan and Ermita are known as "Extramuros". Since its foundation in 1571 with the conquest of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and its construction sometime later, Intramuros became one of the nerve centers of the Philippine Catholic Faith, next to Cebu, for it was chosen as the seat of Catholic Church in the country with the foundation of the Archdiocese of Manila from its parent ...