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Nuestra Señora de la Presentacion de Colegio de Santa Isabel Santa Isabel College, one of the oldest existing girls school (now a co-ed college) in the country is known for honing its students with knowledge that can use to pursue their future careers and the faith to hold on to. The Colegio's chapel is also known as the throne of the miraculous Señor Santo Cristo del Tesoro, one of the Palladium images of Old Manila, the two processional tableaux of the apparitions of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and the petite image of Nuestra Señora de la Presentacion. The image The petite image of Nuestra Señora de la Presentacion of Sta. Isabel College is a de tallado image of the Blessed Virgin Mary where she stands in column-like base, her hands in a prayer postition, her vestments of white and blue alludes the fashion of the Spanish court: a wide cone-shaped white dress, a blue cape, a white veil and a crown. The Virgin looks directly to the beholder as if she wanted to co...

Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa de Bacarra, Ilocos Norte Written by Rev. Fr. Ericson M. Josue Editor's note: While I am doing some research on the devotion and history of Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa of San Agustin Church of Intramuros, Manila for a blogpost dedicated to her, I stumbled upon this post and research regarding the devotion to Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa in Ilocandia and its current state by Fr. Ericson Josue which shows the sad state of the devotion to La Consolacion given that the Ilocandia region was in fact an Augustinian mission province and it is inevitable that the devotion to Our Lady of Consolation and Cincture will be propagated. The devotion to La Consolacion in Ilocandia was similar to the case in Bulacan province (the Augustinian Mission side) that it almost went into oblivion if not through the efforts of the members of the Cofradia de la Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa.  What I'll be presenting i...

Nuestra Señora de Lourdes de Cabetican Cabetican, a barangay located in Bacolor, Pampanga, is widely known as one of the pilgrim sites in the province of Pampanga due to its popular shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. The Cabetican shrine sees itself a pilgrims hub where numerous miracles, especially healing miracles, were reported through the Virgin's intercession and continues to happen up the present. Nuestra Señora de Lourdes de Cabetican The image The beautiful image of  Nuestra Señora de Lourdes de Cabetican is a de tallado image of Our Lady based from the visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. In this image, the image wears an all while robe and mantle with golden linings in detail on her veil and on ends of her robe. She wears a blue sash on her waist with two long ends, a rosary on her hand, her hands in prayer position and her head looking up to the heavens.The Virgin is standing on rocks (in allusion to the grotto) with her feet covered...

St. Lorenzo Ruiz and his companion martyrs in a parish dedicated to the group in Navotas (Photo by Rev. Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP) Majority of Filipino Catholics knew Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, the country's first ever Filipino canonized Saint. The whole nation rejoiced on the announcement, the beatification (held in Manila) and canonization rites in the 1980's. Numerous images, statues, books, novena booklets, prayer cards and other religious paraphernalia are widely circulated up to this day and after the canonization rites, schools, parishes and chapels were immediately erected in his honor. But if we look on the official Church documents, he was not canonized alone for he was canonized together with a group of Spanish and Japanese priests and Japanese lay men and women and he was made the leader of this particular group of martyrs. One common denominator of the group is that all of them died a martyrs death because of their missionary efforts in the then feudal Japanese empire that...

San Nicolas de Tolentino of Quezon City Within the modern facade of Quezon City, there is a certain parish located in Congressional Avenue, at the back of a shopping center which has a rich history that dates back during the Spanish era. This particular parish is dedicated to the famed miracle worker San Nicolas de Tolentino whose origins dates back in Intramuros which makes the parish and devotion the direct descendant of the glorious old San Nicolas Church of Old Manila. The image The image of San Nicolas de Tolentino is also a petite image of St. Nicholas of Tolentine garbed in his Augustinian habit, a paragua (an umbrella like halo) and presented with his traditional attributes: holding a lily, a symbol of his chastity, a solar disc on his chest (alluding to a vision of a star that is said to be given by God as a token of his sanctity and a sign that he will be laid to rest in Tolentino in the very spot the star settles). The image in the Recollect Church portrays him holdi...

The images of Nuestra Señora de Guia, Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa, Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario - La Naval de Manila and Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada Concepcion- Mater Purisima in the early years of the Grand Marian Procession in Intramuros, Manila Editors note:  Devotion to the Saints – most importantly, to the Blessed Virgin Mary – is one of the defining elements of our Catholic faith. In the mind of the Church, devotions are not required by the Church to attain salvation yet they  are greatly instrumental for us to obtain the graces necessary in life, especially in our spiritual journey, such as spiritual strength and inspiration. St. Teresa of Avila in one of her works also explained that devotion should be treated as a tool help us in prayer in order to have a have a special communication to God. It can also be said that devotion is an expression of love. That is why if we say that we love the Saints, in order to show our love, we must desi...