THEOTOKOS SHRINE

With response to the Holy Week this 2018, we Christians visit pilgrim sites to commemorate the the life Jesus Christ had on earth. We visit churches or chapels which is called Visita Iglesia, where the Catholics practice of visiting and praying in at least 7 churches, was introduced to the Philippines by Augustinian missionaries in the 1560s.

"Theotokos" is a greek word which means Virgin Mary or Holy Blessed Mother.

Devotees visit this site to remember and seek for confessions. They pray and meditate in the vast hill of Perrelos, Carcar City, Cebu where the shrine is built.

And also this hill has a beautiful garden with various statues of different saints.

This well preserved evergreen hill with an ideal overlook on a vast ocean will help devotees to ease their longing of a peaceful place where to repent their sins.

According to the history of this site. When the construction of the site was ongoing, a farmer found something unusual. His plow struck an unusual object right at the back where the statue of Our Lady of Fatima now stands. What it was, was a fifteenth centry antique base for a monstrance on which one side bears the monogram AM, Ave Maria like the AM of the Miraculous Medal and on the opposite side of the base, an ancient form of the cross which used to be imprinted on the big host for consecration.

The one we see is a gigantic image of Our Lady of Fatima together with the three visionaries.
And also this place also serves as a site where religious patients seek for fate healing.

These photograghs are taken in a Hill of Perrelos, Carcar City, Cebu, Philippines. A cloudy noon of Holy Friday, March 29, 2018.