tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400966418612303332024-03-12T19:35:43.297-07:00BASILICA MINORE OF OUR LADY OF PIATThings to do in Piat:
Seek Miracle,
Visit Basilica Minore,
Try the native delicacy pawa,
Our Lady of Piat Basilica Minoredarilyn cabacunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04220233198432660848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340096641861230333.post-82208555655156974332010-03-10T21:56:00.000-08:002010-03-10T21:56:44.472-08:00Piat<span style="color: purple;"><strong>Nestled on a plateau, Piat is a small town, some 40 km. northwest or an hour's ride from the capital city of Tuguegarao. It is accessible from Tuguegarao via concrete roads and over the country's second largest bridge which spans the "Bannag", the river which gave the name "Ybanag" to the early natives.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple;">Every June and July, Piat comes alive with two festivals. From June 23 to 30, the</span> <span style="color: cyan;">Piat Sambali Festival</span> <span style="color: purple;">is held, centered on the sambali, a war dance of the tribes that were united and converted to Christianity through the intercession of the</span> <span style="color: cyan;">Nuestra Senora de Piat</span>. <span style="color: purple;">The festivities don't stop since on July 1 and 2, the feast of</span> <span style="color: cyan;">Nuestra Señora de Piat</span> <span style="color: purple;">is celebrated.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple;">The venerated image is erroneously referred to as</span> <span style="color: cyan;">Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary</span> (<span style="color: purple;">that was the original title) when it is in fact the</span> <span style="color: cyan;">Nuestra Señora de Visitacion (Our Lady of the Visitation)</span>. <span style="color: purple;">The Church of Piat became the</span> <span style="color: cyan;">Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Piat</span> <span style="color: purple;">in 1997.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple;">Outside the church is one big flea market where you can find rows of stalls and vendors selling religious images, tobacco and native kakanin among other items you can find in the usual provincial tiangge. You don't see tobacco sold in Manila that way. They're usually in reams, flip top packs or sold by the stick. But in here they are being sold in bandle.</span></strong><br />
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<strong></strong>darilyn cabacunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04220233198432660848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340096641861230333.post-33352576078972775562010-03-10T19:56:00.000-08:002010-03-10T19:56:08.421-08:00OUR LADY OF PIAT<span style="color: blue;"><strong>Our Lady of Piat Basilica</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><strong>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. </strong></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><strong>Instead of facing the town plaza as Philippine churches do, the Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Piat</strong><strong> faces the Chico River for the image of the miraculous Virgin Mary to tame the overflowing Chico River. The El Niño 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. </strong></span>darilyn cabacunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04220233198432660848noreply@blogger.com0