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Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de Turumba ("Our Lady of Sorrows of Turumba") is the name for a specific statue of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Sorrows

Our Lady of Sorrows

Our Lady of Sorrows , the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows , and Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life...

, enshrined in Pakil, Laguna

Pakil, Laguna

Pakil is a 5th class urban municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 20,242 people in 3,698 households.-Barangays:Pakil is politically subdivided into 13 barangays.* Baño * Banilan...

, the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

History of the Virgin of Turumba

The Image of Our Lady

Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic)

Roman Catholic veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary is based on Holy Scripture: In the fullness of time, God sent his son, born of a virgin. The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God through Mary thus signifies her honour as Mother of God...

is a 9" x 11" oil painting on canvas. The Face of Mary is contorted by pain from the daggers plunged in her heart. This relic is presently kept at the Parish of San Pedro Alcantara in Pakil, Laguna

Pakil, Laguna

The second image of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Sorrows

Our Lady of Sorrows

is a replica of the image of Nuestra Señora de las Antiguas from Spain

Spain

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The image, according to tradition, belonged to some missionaries who crossed Laguna de Bay

Laguna de Bay

Laguna de Bay is the largest lake in the Philippines and the third largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia after Tonle Sap in Cambodia and Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is on the island of Luzon between the provinces of Laguna to the south and Rizal to the north...

in a launch. When the launch was shipwrecked, some of its relics were washed ashore including the image of the Virgin.

One Friday morning, some fishermen found the image in the nets. Believing it was a religious image, they decided to drop it off at a parish church. When they started to carry the painting, they found that it was heavy. They tried to carry it in many directions, until it was near the church of Pakil. While they headed that way, the wind and current aided their course; and when they landed, they left the image on a rock so they could continue their fishing duties.

A group of women found the image one Sunday morning. Although it had rained during the night, the canvas was dry. When they tried to take it away, they could not move it; even the strongest among them, Mariangga, could not lift it. They quickly told the parish priest, who in turn called the sacristans, choir members and churchgoers to get the image. As they lifted the image, the people around begun to sing and dance. To their surprise, the image gave way. And So the Turumba to Our Lady was born.

The word turumba is from the Filipino phrase "natumba sa laki ng tuwa" or tremble in great joy. The first Turumba in Our Lady's Honor was held on September 15, 1788.

Lupi Festival

The Seven days of Sorrows are known to the Philippines as Lupi fiestas:

1st Lupi or Biernes Dolores falls on the Friday preceding Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four Canonical Gospels. ....

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2nd Lupi or Pistang Martes falls on Tuesday following Easter Sunday

3rd Lupi or Pistang Biyatiko falls on the 2nd Wednesday after Easter Sunday.

4th Lupi or Pistang Biyernes falls on the 3rd Friday after Easter Sunday.

5th Lupi or Pistang Linggo falls on the 4th Sunday after Easter Sunday.

6th Lupi or Feast of the Ascension

Feast of the Ascension

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falls on the 5th Sunday after Easter.

7th Lupi or Feast of the Holy Spirit falls on the Sunday of Pentecost

Pentecost

Pentecost is a prominent feast in the calendar of Ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ after the Resurrection of Jesus...

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The Image is also taken on a Procession on May 12, The Town Fiesta of Pakil. On the Sunday nearest September 15, The Catholic Church Celebrates the national feast of the discovery of the image.

Homage to the Virgin of Sorrows is done by the way of Song and dance, drumbeat and shill cries of its devotees that the people regard as co-sharing with Mary's Grief during the Passion of Christ. The Turumba episodes are called Lupi (meaning to Fold) it is so because at the closing of every festivities, the Novena Booklet is folded to mark the pause in preparation for the Next Lupi.

Dresses of the Virgin are Shredded and given to pilgrims as tokens. It was said that when the piece of cloth from the Virgin is kept close to one person, miraculous powers and against personal injury, accidents, fire and calamities happen.

The Statue is enshrined at the retablo

Retablo

A Retablo or lamina is a Latin American devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art....

in the main altar, The image is dressed in Violet as a sign of sorrow for her Son's passion (but sometimes dresses another color, it depends on the donations)
And the Original image is enshrined at a chapel in the Church. St Peter of Alcantara Parish is located in Pakil, Laguna

Pakil, Laguna

; over facing Laguna de Bay

Laguna de Bay

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