Nuestra Seňora Virgen dela Regla Parish
Every time I visit here in Cebu, I always visit this Nuestra Seňora Virgen dela Regla Parish to light a candle. It becomes a routine already for me to visit this Parish church. And so this time that I’m here in Cebu again, I don’t want to miss the opportunity to visit this Church and I got the chance to take a picture inside the church and the outside too. This Nuestra Sra. Virgen dela Regla Parish has a small park besides it where mostly family, friends or lovers hang out before and after they attend the mass.
History:
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Our Lady of the Rule also known as the Nuestra Señora Virgen De Regla was the title given to our Blessed Virgin Mary by the natives of Cebu who believe that the prosperity they enjoy is a blessing achieved through the strength of her maternal intercession. The devotion to Our Lady of the Rule was started by St. Augustine, the bishop of Hippo In Northern Africa. He has carved an image of Our Lady by using his own hands which was one of the relics that has survived the destruction of the city of Hippo. Upon Augustine’s death, the monks fled to Spain, taking the image with them. In Spain, the image has done miracles and survived the destruction and pillage of the Moors, because of this, the devotion to Our Lady rapidly spread.
1330, the Virgin appeared to an Augustinian monk and instructed him to go to the city of Cadiz and look for a cave where the image had been hidden away. He was instructed to dig up and found a hidden underground altar. There, the statue of Our Lady of the Rule has been permanently enshrined.
The devotion was transported to the Philippines in the 18th century, when the Augustinian Order was given control over the parish of Opon,(now,Lapu-Lapu City,Cebu]. The people of Cebu first saw the picture of the Virgen de la Regla in 1735, when the parish priest , Francisco Avalle, showed it to them. The people of Opon instantly developed a liking for the new patroness.
The Virgen de Regla of Cebu was canonically crowned on November 27, 1954 during the First Marian Congress of the Archdiocese of Cebu. The Our Lady of the Rule image carved from the trunk of dark Philippine hardwood, was installed at the main altar of Our Lady of the Rule Church in Lapu-Lapu City. The church was under the administration of the Agustinians from 1730 to 1929. The Dutch congregation took over the church from 1929 onwards.
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like it…viva birhen sa regla!!!!