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Another Marian image in Antipolo diocese to get Papal crown on May 25
Another Marian image in Antipolo diocese to get Papal crown on May 25
By Nel Andrade
A Marian image in Antipolo City will soon become the seventh pontifically crowned image of the Virgin Mary in the diocese.
Antipolo Bishop Ruperto C. Santos announced that the image of the Nuestra Señora dela Annunciata, enshrined in the Boso-Boso Parish church in the upland Sitio Boso-Boso in Barangay San Jose in Antipolo City, will soon be pontifically crowned.
This came as Pope Francis has issued a decree, through the Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, granting the coronation of the Antipolo City Marian statue.
Known among the parishioners as ‘Inay Ciata’, the revered image, which was crafted in 2016 by Paete, Laguna artist Maestro Justino “Paloy” Cagayat, Jr. under the guidance of then parish priest, Fr. Wilson Peñaranda of the Order of the Ministers of the Infirm which was founded by Saint Camillus, the devotion was revived in the upland communities of Barangay San Jose and its surrounding areas.
The white skinned image of the Virgin Mary holding a scepter will become the seventh Marian image to receive the pontifical crown in the Diocese of Antipolo.
Other pontifically crowned Marian images in the diocese are the Nuestra Señora Dela Paz y Buenviaje from the International Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage; Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados from the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Abandoned in Marikina City; Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu from the Diocesan Shrine – Parish of Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu in San Mateo; Nuestra Señora de la Lumen from the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Our Lady of Light in Cainta; Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario from Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Cardona; and the image of Nuestra Señora de Fatima de Marikina in Marikina City.
Fr. John Jay Magpusao, parish priest of the Nuestra Señora dela Annunciata Parish Church, otherwise known as the Boso-Boso Church, told the Manila Bulletin that the pontifical coronation ceremony will happen on May 25, Sunday, at 5:30 p.m.
