BIRHEN SA COTTA SHRINE

Posted by: Mai | March 8th, 2011

For more than two centuries our people have come to the Shrine of the Virgin at the Cotta, which they claim to be miraculous, to invoke her protection. So much so that our identity as Church will forever be marked by our devotion to our beloved Ang Birhen sa Cotta. Our devotion traces its history back to 1756 when the Jesuit Missionaries brought from Spain a statuette of the Immaculate Conception and placed it in the chapel of the Cotta built.

Around the year 1758 an image of the statuette was etched into the wall of the Cotta which the people started and continue to venerate.

Officially named Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada Concepción y del Triunfo de la Cruz de Migpangi, they call it Ang among Pinangga nga Birhen sa Cotta.