BASILICA MINORE

BASILICA MINORE
OUR LADY OF PIAT

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

OUR LADY OF PIAT

Our Lady of Piat Basilica


Originally from Macau, the patroness of Cagayan Valley housed at the Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Piat, has become the religious fulcrum of people wanting for favors of any kind.
Instead of facing the town plaza as Philippine churches do, the Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Piat faces the Chico River for the image of the miraculous Virgin Mary to tame the overflowing Chico River. The El NiƱo weather has reduced the mighty river into a stream, leaving corn fields high and dry along its banks here in Barangay Aquib where villagers now wade knee-high to reach the other side instead of taking a banca as they normally do.

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