THIS September, all roads lead to Naga City for the feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia. This year is particularly special as the Archdiocese of Nueva Caceres celebrates the centenary of the canonical coronation of the image, which took place on Sept. 20, 1924.

The devotion to Our Lady of Peñafrancia began in Salamanca, Spain in the early 1400s when Simon Vela, who came from a wealthy family, gave up his inheritance to become a Franciscan lay brother in Paris. He discovered the image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia buried under a rock on the mountain of Peña de Francia in Spain in 1434. When miraculous healings began to be reported, Vela built a chapel to house the

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