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Martin Luther
Naga City
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The andas/palanquin of the image of the Nuestra Senora de Penafrancia is carried by voyadores from the Naga Metropolitan Cathedral on the way to the Tabuco bridge where her "pagoda" is waiting to bring her back to the Penafrancia Basilica Minore. Picture was taken at the side of the Plaza Quince Martires along Elias Engeles street. (September 20, 2008)
On May 22, 1982, this basilica minore was dedicated as The Church of Nuestra Señora de Peña de Francia and it wasn't until May 22, 1985 that the Church was given the title of Basilica Minore from Rome after a request from the third Archbishop of Caceres, Leonardo Z. Legaspi.
The Peñafrancia Basilica Minore houses an image of the virgin Mary that was sculpted in 1710. It was commissioned by Miguel de Cobarrubias who moved to the Philippines from Spain with his family and believed that the virgin Mary had helped him numerous times in his life. The image was housed in a small chapel until the Basilica Minore was built and constructed.
I saw this kid while I was on my way down from Malabsay Falls in Panicuason, Naga City. I asked him to pose for a shot. Here goes!
The Image of the Nuestra Senora de Penafrancia on her "pagoda" during the fluvial procession along the Naga river on her way back to the Penafrancia Basilica. The pagoda is about to pass under the Magsaysay bridge. (September 20, 2008)
Next day headed to a grocery store to pick up supplies for a picnic at the beach. We bought mostly cookies, candies and soft drink for the kids; the women back at San Fernando were cooking the meal. When we got back to San Fernando on the tri-mobile there was a Jeepney being loaded for our trip to the beach. A Jeepney is a vehicle like a small bus. It is like a stretched Jeep with a hard top and benches in the back. They are usually very colorfully decorated.
The Cathedral of San Juan Evangelista was first built in 1595 when the Diocese of Nueva Caceres was established. The present structure is the third church and was built by 1843, and repaired in 1862 and 1890. It just underwent a general restoration work (March 2012).
They like their statues figurative in the Philippines. This splendid piece in Naga City commemorates the history of interaction between Spaniard and 'Indio', which started as these things usually do and ended in the revolt of 1898, just in time for the Americans to step in and take over.
The andas/palanquin of the image of the Nuestra Senora de Penafrancia is carried by voyadores from the Naga Metropolitan Cathedral on the way to the Tabuco bridge where her "pagoda" is waiting to bring her back to the Penafrancia Basilica Minore. Picture was taken at the side of the Plaza Quince Martires along Elias Angeles Street. (September 20, 2008)
The concept for the building came from Archbishop Pedro P. Santos in 1960. Construction began on April 18, 1976, but was delayed for a number of years due to finance problems and was not completed until September, 1981.
Erected on Padi-an when the Diocese of Caceres was created by a Papal Bull of 14 August 1595. Destroyed by fire, 1768. Construction of present cathedral in Spanish-Romanesque style by Bishop Bernardo de la Concepcion, 1808. Finished and blessed by Monsignor Tomas Ladron de Guevarra, 1843. Damaged by typhoon, October, 1856; restored by the Very Reverend Fray Francisco Gainza, 1862-1879; damaged by earthquake, 1887; repaired by Obras Publicas under the direction of Bishop Arsenio Campo and Engineer Ricardo Ayuso, 1890.
The image was found by Simon Vela in 1434 in a place called Pena de Francia (Mountain of France). In 1711, the Philippine version of the image was carved from santol wood and painted with dog's blood mixed with some pigment. Bicolanos later venerated the image after being spared from the cholera epedemic of 1882. The Nuestra Senora de Penafrancia was canonicaly crowned in 1924 (April 2012).