Virgin of manaoag pangasinan

Turning around, he was greatly surprised to see a radiant lady holding a small child on one arm while a rosary was suspended from her right hand. The vision appeared to be standing on a bright cloud over a small bush. Saying nothing, the Virgin looked sweetly at the man — who was now on his knees in profound reverence.

Our lady of manaoag history tagalog

When the villagers heard of the vision, they hastily journeyed there and soon built a small church over the place of the apparition. The Blessed Virgin seems to have protected this region ever since then from numerous threats. There was a time in which mountain tribes were accustomed to burning Christian villages. One day, when Manaoag was destined to be torched, flaming arrows were shot into the little church.

Not a single flame set it on fire. On an even greater scale, during World War II, four bombs were dropped. Three landed on the patio and only damaged the facade of the church. One bomb crashed through the roof of the church, but it failed to explode inside. The church was miraculously saved.

Why manaoag church is famous

In , huge swarms of locusts began to ravage the rice fields. They came in swarms so vast that the sky was darkened. An image of the Blessed Virgin that had been brought to the Philippines by Padre Juan de San Jacinto of Spain in the early 17 th century was taken out to the fields.