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San Clemente de Angono (altar image) Angono, Rizal, famously known for two things, the Art Capital of the Philippines with numerous artists and national artists that were born there, the art galleries that can be found throughout the municipality and its famed Higantes Festival held every October in honor of the town's patron saint and patriarch - San Clemente de Angono, Pope and of the Great Martyrs of the early years of the Catholic Chruch. The Patriarch's Visage There were two known images of San Clemente that is venerated in Angono, Rizal: the original bust image and the full bodied church image. The first image of San Clemente is a wooden bust image of the Martyred Pontiff where he wears the standard iconography of a Pope-Saint: the Tri Regnum or the Papal Tiara, the three barred Cross, the fisherman's ring, and the upper half of the red Papal Regalia. The image is has this expressive eyes that commands veneration to its beholder. The image is kept in an urna...

Servant of God Sister Dalisay Lazaga In the recent blogposts, we have featured a number of religious and holy women who changed the course of our local Church history with the foundation of different "Beaterios" during the Spanish regime and these prominent foundresses were later proposed for sainthood and their causes are progressing as of this writing. What we're going to discover in this blogpost is also an ongoing cause for beatification and canonization of a simple religious of the Canossian Sisters of Charity - Sister Dalisay Lazaga. Sister Dalisay may not found any religious congregation or sought reforms in her congregation, her holiness that she exemplified during her suffering made her cause to be worthy to be considered by the Holy See, just like our recently declared Servant of God Darwin Ramos. Early Life  Sister Dalisay Lazaga was born in Santa Rosa, Laguna on March 17, 1940. In her early age, she got a preview of her vocation - suffering. At age o...

San Jose de Navotas  (original image) The City of Navotas, located in the northern part of Manila, is known as a fishing city due to the extant of the thriving industry up to this day. The industrious city of Navotas was placed under the patronage of St. Joseph since the Spanish era and it was proven to be providential. The people of Navotas sought the help and protection of St. Joseph and their devotion to the Foster Father of Our Lord and Chaste Spouse of Our Lady became part of everyday life and history of the parish. The image There were two images of San Jose that is currently venerated in the parish, the centuries old original image where the de datallado image is covered with metal covering and the bigger altar image. The first image is a detallado image of San Jose with the Child Jesus beside him. San Jose is seen holding his staff with azucenas (an allusion to his purity and to the pious tradition that when a spouse for the Virgin Mary was being selected, his sta...