CAGAYANOS (the people of Cagayan in the Cagayan Valley, in contrast to "Cagayanons," the people of Cagayan de Oro City) have an indescribable relation with her. To them, she is alive. She is revered. She is feared. Her mantle is stained by the tears of all who have sought her aid. Her shrine is opulent with the votive offerings of the favored who believe that, by her prayers, what they had ardently hoped for had been granted them.
Very often, the theology of popular piety is muddled but the devotion, the affection and the awe - in short, the sense of the holy and the benevolent cannot be induced by any theological argument.
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