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    THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION

    (OUR LADY OF MANAOAG)

    BY: NAVALTA, RAINE


    TAGUPA ELISE
    I. INTODUCTION

    We chose Our Lady of Manaoag Church because of some of the earliest miracles attributed to
    Our Lady of Manaoag, including the original apparition, are depicted in the murals in the church.
    In the early days of the Spanish era, animist mountain tribes burnt down newly-Christianized
    villages. The town of Manaoag was among the settlements that were burnt by the raiders,
    sending the locals fleeing to the thatch-roofed church. The pillagers's leader climbed over the
    church compound's crude fence and shot flaming arrows at all parts of the church, but the
    building miraculously did not catch fire.

    Our Lady of Manaoag church is one of the Philippines' most widely visited Roman Catholic
    church. Many people from all over the Philippines come and visit the town of Manaoag, where
    the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is enshrined in a church dedicated to this name. The church
    is administered by the Dominican Order in the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, located in
    Manaoag, Pangasinan,

    There are a lot of wonderful facts about the Our Lady of Manaoag Church is also called a part of
    heaven in earth. There’s something about this Virgin Mary. Felipe Sikat Legaspi, founder of the
    chapel, saw a headless image of the Blessed Mother in his backyard. He looked around for other
    Marian images that would complete the headless statue. One day, by some lucky chance of fate,
    Felipe’s parents brought home a framed image of Our Lady of Manaoag from Pangasinan which,
    when put behind the headless statue, amazingly completed the image of the Blessed Mother.
    Thus started Felipe’s devotion to Our Lady of Manaoag, patron saint of the people of Manaoag,
    Pangasinan..

    Here are some trivias about Our Lady of Manaoag church. One of the most earliest Christian
    mission of Manaoag Church was established by the Augustinians sometime between 1595 and
    1600. The province of Pangasinan specially Dagupan City was then under their pastoral care and
    missionaries from Lingayen occasionally visited the settlement by the Baloquin river. In time the
    people of the settlement were converted to Christianity and a small mission chapel was built to
    serve religious needs of the settlers. The mission was placed under the patronage of Sta. Monica
    and for sometime, Manaoag was simply known as the mission of Sta. Monica.
    II. MISSIONARY JOURNEY OF THE CHURCH.

    A. HISTORY
    The first Dominican priest to work in the Manaoag mission was Juan de San Jacinto, who
    was the first curate of Mangaldan. It was only in 1608 that the Mangaldan mission was
    formally accepted by the provincial chapter of the Dominicans. In 1610, Tomás Jiménez,
    O.P. became the Manaoag mission's first resident priest. Numerous threats from
    the Igorot tribes of the surrounding mountains led to the transfer of the entire community
    to the present site on a hill. The Dominicans started to build a large church on its present
    site in 1701 under the sponsorship of Gaspar de Gamboa and his wife, Agata Yangta,
    who were wealthy residents from Manila who moved to Lingayen. Later expansion of the
    church from 1882 was frustrated by an earthquake in 1892.
    During the tumult of the Philippine Revolution for independence from Spain,
    revolutionaries set fire to the church, its treasures, ornaments, and records on 10 May
    1898. The image narrowly escaped destruction; it was found abandoned at the back of the
    church. It was spirited away to Dagupan City, where it was kept from June to October
    1898.
    The Dominicans returned in 1901 upon the invitation of Rev. Mariano Pacis, the diocesan
    priest of Manaoag. Under the aegis of the Dominicans, the church that was started in
    1882 was finally completed to a large extent in 1911-12. The central retablo,
    incorporating Baroque columns from the 18th-century altar, was completed by the famed
    Tampinco Atelier of Manila. The transepts were completed in 1931-32. The Dominicans
    ceded all their Pangasinan missions to the diocesan clergy except Manaoag. Spiritual
    administration of the shrine in perpetuity was granted by the Holy See to the Order of
    Preachers in 1925.
    A huge crowd attended the canonica Coronation of the image on 21 April 1926 by then-
    Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Guglielmo Piani, S.D.B., as authorized by Pope Pius XI.
    This meant that the Catholic Church officially recognized and proclaimed that The Virgin
    Mary acclaimed as Our Lady of The Rosary of Manaoag had granted favors and blessings to
    or formidable intercessions for her devotees through the centuries.
    The church was rebuilt after surviving Japanese bombardment during the Second World War.
    The old Convento is now the Our Lady of Manaoag College, founded as Holy Rosary
    Academy in 1946 by the last Spanish Dominican in Manaoag, Rev. Teodulo Cajigal,
    O.P..Since 8 December 1972, the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag has been
    under the Philippine Dominican Province. It celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of the image's
    canonical coronation on 1 January 2000.
    B. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED

    The most recent problem that Our Lady of Manaoag encountered is, purportedly considered a
    target by terrorists is taking such a report "very seriously," one of its officials said on Saturday.Fr.
    Anthony Eudela, prior of the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, said the church
    has sat down with authorities to see what steps need to be taken to make the place and the entire town
    safe."We took that information very seriously. We have to heighten the security measures we have,"
    Eudela told DZMM radio."After we have received the information, nag-meeting kami agad with the
    (local government unit), the PNP (Philippine National Police), regional command, and the Armed
    Forces of the Philippines kasi may kampo rin dito na malapit sa basilica.
    C. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH

    According to In February 2015, the Shrine of Our Lady of The Rosary of Manaoag was
    elevated to a minor basilica in a ceremony attended by more than 100 archbishops and
    bishops, leaders of church and state, and numerous devotees. The Shrine was henceforth
    called the Basilica of Our Lady of The Rosary of Manaoag, headed by a rector appointed
    by the Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan. A special Mass was also held to affirm the
    "Special Bond of Spiritual Affinity in Perpetuity" between the Manaoag Shrine and the
    Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome.

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