Inà comes home to the Gesù: Our Lady of Peñafrancia visits Ateneo this month

The pilgrim image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia from the Metropolitan Cathedral of Naga will be visiting the Church of the Gesù at Ateneo de Manila University this September.

Celebrated on the third Saturday of September, the feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia is one of the most important religious and cultural festivals in the Philippines. Prior to the feast, during the Nativity of Mary on September 8, the image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia is brought from the Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Peñafrancia to the Metropolitan Cathedral and Parish of Saint John the Evangelist where a novena is held until the day of the feast.

On the last day of the feast, the image of the Virgin returns to its shrine via a fluvial procession traversing the Bicol River in downtown Naga.