Replica of the miraculous image of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage from the National Shrine of Peace and Good Voyage in Antipolo City will visit Veritas Chapel in Quezon City from June 23 to July 4, 2017.
Marian devotees seeking healing and other petitions may venerate the image of the Virgin of Antipolo from 8:00am to 5:00pm.
Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage is a 17th-century Roman Catholic wooden image of the Blessed Virgin Mary also known as the Virgin of Antipolo . The image in its form of Black Madonna represents the Immaculate Conception, and is enshrined at Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo city.
The image was brought to the country by Governor-General Juan Niño de Tabora from Mexico via the galleon El Almirante in 1626. His safe voyage across the Pacific Ocean was attributed to the image, which was given the title of “Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage”. It was substantiated later by six other successful voyages of the Manila-Acapulco Galleons with the image aboard as its patroness.
When Governor Tabora died in 1632, the statue was given to the Jesuits for enshrinement in the church of Antipolo, which was then being built in the present-day barangay Santa Cruz. During construction of the church in the 1630s, the image would mysteriously vanish several times from its shrine, only to reappear atop a Tipolo tree. This was taken as a divine sign, and the church was relocated to where the tipolo tree was situated. The image’s pedestal is supposedly made from the trunk of that same tipolo tree, which also gave its name to Antipolo itself.
The image was canonically crowned on November 27, 1926, while the National Shrine was dedicated to the Virgin Queen of Peace on January 14, 1954.
During the first day of the visit of the image of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage on June 23, 2017, the Rector of the National Shrine of Peace and Good Voyage, Fr. Reynante Tolentino will concelebrate in the Holy Mass at 12 noon, which will also celebrate the Feast day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
For inquiries, please call Ms. Renee Jose or Mr. Rey Isabela at (02) 925-7932 to 39 local 129.
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