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It took the people of Sinait eight years to construct the church with funds provides by the Spanish Audiencia. Today the landing site of Apo Lakay is marked by a chapel at Lugo Beach in Barangay Dadalaquiten Norte, and is a place of pilgrimage for devotees, as with the nearby chapel marking La Virgen Milagrosa's landing site.
Ubing-ubing – son of greedy parents, Apo Lakay-lakay and Apo Baket-baket. He is turned to stone by the beach. His parents were also turned into stone when the sea touched their feet. The parent's stones can be seen at Taggat Lagoon, while Ubing-ubing's stone is at Sentinela beach in Claveria, Cagayan. [103]
The Minor Basilica of Saint Nicholas de Tolentino, [1] also known as the Shrine of Santo Cristo Milagroso or Sinait Basilica, is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Sinait, Ilocos Sur, in northern Philippines.
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. [c] (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, dictator, [7] [8] [9] and kleptocrat [10] [11] [12] who was the tenth president of the Philippines, ruling from 1965 to 1986.
Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (Filipino: Mahál na Poóng Jesús Nazareno), officially and liturgically known as Jesús Nazareno, and popularly known as the Black Nazarene (Spanish: El Nazareno Negro; Filipino: Poóng Itím na Nazareno), [1] is a life-sized dark statue of Jesus Christ carrying the True Cross.
Lakay (subtitled A True to Life Story of P/Col Juanito Lagasca) is a 1992 Filipino action film directed by Nilo Saez, written by Jose Carreon, and starring Fernando Poe Jr. as the titular police colonel.
The Ivatan people are an Austronesian ethnolinguistic group native to the Batanes and Babuyan Islands of the northernmost Philippines.They are genetically closely related to other ethnic groups in Northern Luzon, but also share close linguistic and cultural affinities to the Tao people of Orchid Island in Taiwan.
Minokawa is a giant, dragon-like bird in Philippine mythology.Early people believed this creature is so big that it can swallow (or cover) the Sun to explain the occurrence of eclipses.