Painter credits ‘Ina’ with wife’s healing
For Raul Alcomendas, his wife Josie’s recovery from the severe stroke she suffered in 2003 was a miracle bestowed on her by the image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia.
For Raul Alcomendas, his wife Josie’s recovery from the severe stroke she suffered in 2003 was a miracle bestowed on her by the image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia.
September is a great month for Marian devotees. The Nativity of the Virgin Mary is celebrated on Sept. 8, followed by the feasts of Our Lady of Sorrows on Sept. 15 and Our Lady of La Salette on Sept. 19.
The images of San Pedro Calungsod, the second Filipino saint, and Our Lady of Peñafrancia, patroness of Bicol, have been approved by the Vatican to be placed in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica.
On September 15, from the windows of the Dabu Building on Elias Angeles Street in Naga City, Ali Rich Garcia and I, with Mama Josefa Dabu, Carmelita Dabu and others, saw tens of thousands of men, rich and poor, walking barefoot as they followed the carrozas of the “Divino Rostro” (Holy Face of Jesus) and Our Lady of Peñafrancia.
To celebrate 150 years presence of the Vincentian community in the Philippines, the Archdiocese of Manila inaugurated last July 22 the new Santuario de San Vicente de Paul as diocesan shrine and parish in Novaliches where the St. Vincent Seminary is.
They sang their songs with a small boy holding a small image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia in the recent 18th Certamen International Juvenil de Habaneras y Polifonia in Torrevieja, Spain. Baao Children’s Choir, under the baton of Virgilio Briones, himself a Baaeño, bested 40 other groups from around the world during the elimination, and beat eight choirs during the competition proper on April 27-29. They took home the golden trophy and the 3,000-euro cash prize.
Filipinos in Toronto, Canada, especially the Bicolanos there and devotees of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, will have a chance to view the film “Ikaw ang Pag-ibig,” when it is shown there on March 24 and 25. The film resolves around the religious conversion of a dysfunctional family through the intercession of Our Lady of Penafrancia—“Ina” to the Bicolanos.
We were amazed at the thousands of people waiting to wave at Our Lady of Peñafrancia when she passed by on her barge being pulled by 200 boatmen along Naga River.
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