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Tradition recounts that in the 1800s, Saint Martha (who legendarily subdued the Tarasque), was invoked by the people of Pateros to vanquish a crocodile in the Pateros River that ate their ducks. [2] These animals were the main source of the townspeople's livelihood as their eggs are the main ingredient of the delicacy of Balút (fertilised duck ...
The Making of The First Filipino Saint, The Ala-Ala Foundation, 1982. Villaroel, Fidel "Lorenzo de Manila: The Protomartyr of the Philippines and His Companions", UST Publishing, Inc., 1988; Dela Peña, Rev. Ordanico "The Birth of the Catholic Philippines in Asia: Includes the Lives of San Lorenzo Ruiz and Blessed Pedro Calungsod", Xlibris Corp ...
The first Filipino canonized as saint was Lorenzo Ruiz, a married lay Dominican and member of the Rosarian Confraternity in dedication to Our Lady. Ruiz died as a martyr of faith during the persecutions in Nagasaki, Japan , where the Japanese rulers organized an anti-clerical campaign.
Festivals in the Philippines can be religious, cultural, or both. Several of these are held to honor the local Roman Catholic patron saint, to commemorate local history and culture, to promote the community's products, or to celebrate a bountiful harvest.
Image of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Our Lady of Candles) perched atop the facade of Jaro Cathedral in Jaro, Iloilo City.It is the first marian statue canonically crowned personal without a papal legate by a pope and saint in the Philippines and Asia when John Paul II visited the Philippine islands in 1981, elevating her as the official patron of Western Visayas and Romblon.
Our Lady of Solitude of Porta Vaga (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de la Soledad de Porta Vaga, Filipino: Mahal na Birhen ng Soledad ng Porta Vaga) also known as the Virgin of a Thousand Miracles, is a Roman Catholic Marian title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1667 by a Spanish soldier during a night storm when he watched over the gates of Porta Vaga.
The image of the Santo Niño is the oldest surviving Catholic relic in the Philippines, along with Magellan's Cross. [19] A church to house Santo Niño was built on the spot where the image was found by Juan Camus. The church was originally made of bamboo and nipa palm, and is thought to be the oldest in the Philippines. The structure was ...
The Spanish missionaries had placed Magsungay, the village that was the precursor of the modern city of Bacolod under the care and protection of Saint Sebastian sometime in the middle 1700s. Luis Fernando de Luna (1777-1779), a corregidor , donated a relic of the Saint for the growing mission, and the village came to be known as San Sebastian ...