Nuestra Señora del Santissimo Rosario Reina de Caracol

In the area of Rosario, Cavite where the noise of the suburbs is all over and traffic is
somewhat inevitable, there lays the parish of the town, that is the center of their lives and
pilgrimages. That parish, the Parish of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary enshrines the centuries
old miraculous icon of Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario, Reina de Caracol.

The Virgin of the Rosary in Rosario, Cavite is noted for its colorful tradition of Caracol
that draws thousands to millions of devotees from the surrounding towns of Cavite up to Metro
Manila and other areas around the country.

The virgin was found during the time of Spanish era in the Philippines, it was
discovered by countless lost fishermen and merchants in the sea. They get lost because of a
strong typhoon while traveling. In days of being lost they found the Virgin and they took it and
pray for their life to the Virgin. They promised that if they will be save they will build a chapel
which the Virgin will be placed. And days later they reached the coastal part of Rosario. And as
promised they build a chapel and now is known the Most Holy Rosary Parish Church.

The devotion to the Santo Rosario, Reina de Caracol continues to thrive even in our
modern times. People continue to flock the Parish and yearly, millions continue to join the
Caracol Festivities and marvelous miracles were also reported and this once again proves that it
is Our Lord and His loving Mother is people’s source of Joy and celebration - something that
material wealth cannot be matched
 Nuestra Señora de Candelaria

According to a legend recorded by Alonso de Espinosa in 1594, a statue of the Virgin

Mary, bearing a child in one hand and a green candle in the other (hence "Candelaria"), was
discovered on the beach of Chimisay (Güímar) by two Guanche goatherds in 1392. This was
before the Castilian conquest of the island (the island was not fully conquered until 1496).

One of the shepherds tried to throw a stone at the statue, but his arm became paralysed;
the other tried to stab the statue with a knife but ended up stabbing himself. The statue was taken
by the local Guanche mencey, Acaymo, to the cueva de Chinguaro.

Later, Antón, a Guanche who had been enslaved and converted to Christianity by the
Castilians, returned to Tenerife and recognized the statue as that of the Virgin Mary. He told the
mencey of his conversion and the statue was thus venerated by the Guanches, who moved it to
the cave of Achbinico (also known as San Blas – "Saint Blaise"). However, the statue was stolen
and taken away to Lanzarote. It was later returned to Tenerife after various events, including an
outbreak of the plague, occurred on Lanzarote.. At first, the autochthons identified the statue with
their goddess Chaxiraxi (the mother of the gods), but later the Christian conquerors imposed the
idea that the statue was that of the Virgin Mary.

The original statue was a medieval gothic sculpture with dark colour and clothing
similar to that of the Virgin of Lluch (patron saint of Mallorca) and the Virgin of
Montserrat (patron saint of Catalonia).

Here in Cavite the parish that Nuestra Señora de Candelaria was the patron, is the
pasrish of Silang. It is known as the Our Lady of Candelaria Parish.
 La Inmaculada Corazon de Maria

Three pastors of Portugal called attention by stating that the Virgin Mary was presented
leaving messages that would then be made known to the whole world from the mouth of Sister
Lucia , these presentations of the Virgin were six times.

In December 1925 the Blessed Virgin appeared to Lucía dos Santos, a seer of Fatima , and
promised to attend at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on
the first Saturdays of five months consecutive, confess , receive Holy Communion , pray a third
part of the Rosary , with the intention of giving him reparation. Devotion of the Rosary

 In the third apparition, the Virgin of Fatima said to Lucia:

Our Lord wants to establish devotion to the Immaculate Heart in the world. If you
do what I say many souls will be saved and there will be peace; the war will end ... I want the
world to be consecrated to my Immaculate Heart and that reparation be communicated on the
first Saturday of each month ... If my requests are fulfilled, Russia will be converted and
there will be peace ... In the end my Immaculate Heart and humanity will enjoy an era of
peace.

 Little Jacinta felt that her end would come to the world, and in a conversation with Lucia,
she, barely ten years old, said:

I have little time to go to Heaven, but you are going to stay down here to make
known to the world that our Lord desires that the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
be established in the world. Tell everyone to ask for this grace through her and that the Heart
of Jesus desires to be venerated along with the Heart of his Mother. Insist them to ask for
peace through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, because the Lord has placed in their hands the
peace of the world.