This Page is Created to Spread and Propagate the Devotions to Our Lady of Salvation De Manila a Special Title of the Blessed Mother
(Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Salvación)
( Filipino; Ina ng Kaligtasan )
also known as Our Lady of Light, is a special title attributed to the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Co-Redemptrix of mankind. The Marian devotion to the Lady of Salvation is based on a wooden stat
ue of the Blessed Virgin. The Devotion to Our Lady of Salvation Started in 1776
The image of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Lady of Salvation is in itself full of symbolism that reflects her role, according to Catholic doctrine, as Co-Redemptrix. The arrival of the Image of the Blessed Mother in the Town of Santa Mesa; Nuestra Senora de Salvacion De Manila
The National Development Company (NDC) is one of the oldest companies in the Philippines commencing on March 10, 1919 via Legislative Act 1248. NDC's first name was "Compania de Fomento Nacional". On November 30, 1936, NDC was made a state-owned company via Commonwealth Act 182, which also gave its present name. It was mandated to function as the government's investment arm. NDC, developed, financed and implemented pioneering projects vital to the sustainability of the government's structural reforms and economic policies. Two years later on January 9, 1938, Commonwealth Act 311 expanded NDC's power and gave it another 25-year corporate life, while allowing it to engage in the development of natural resources. A P 50-million capital base was allocated. Added to its original objectives was the engagement in enterprises necessary for economic development, or more significantly which private capital was unwilling to venture into. With its new capital base and objective, NDC was instrumental in the birth and growth of the shipping and aviation industries in the Philippines; it made possible the manufacture of the first light bulbs in the country, invigorated the steel industry, and pioneered copper smelting and phosphate fertilizers among others. NDC opened the nation's first cement firm, practically establishing the industry. It organized the first textile firm, the first sugar refinery, and the first space communications company. It led the way in low-cost housing, established agricultural plantations, built warehouses, set up lumber and paper mills, and conducted groundbreaking surveys of oil, iron ore, guano, marble, coal, and other minerals. in 1938 NDC acquired a low cost housing which is named as NDC Compound around in Pureza,Anonas Sta Mesa and community started to be establish in May,19 ,1940 the Image with a different Iconography of Our Lady of Salvation brought by a family due this time war is already in a uprised which is the community serves the image of the blessed mother as a beacon of light & hope during the war; " A Mother who Saves his people, a Queen who saves the poor " after peace time the community built a small chapel in honored of the blessed mother that is made from bamboo and sawali; devotions started from the "Poor Man's Community" or known to be as NDC Compound since it is around the Poor Man's University The Polytechic University of the Philippines or PUP until the parish is establish and canonically erected in the year 1994 in honored of the blessed mother our lady of salvation of manila. President Corazon C. Aquino issued Memorandum Order No. 214 dated January 6, 1989, ordering the transfer of the whole NDC
Compound to the National Government,
which in turn would convey the said property in favor of PUP at acquisition cost. The memorandum order cited the serious need of PUP being considered the “Poor Man’s University,” to expand its campus and it's community
which adjoins the NDC Compound, to accommodate its growing students and community population, and the willingness of PUP to buy and of NDC to sell its property. The order of conveyance of the 10.31-hectare property would automatically
result in the cancellation of NDC’s total obligation in favor of the National Government
The name of the Town derived from the name Santa Mesa de la Misericordia meaning "Holy Table of Mercy". The landowner of Santa Mesa during the Spanish colonial period offered an obra pía ("pious work to the Jesuits Congregation and provided social services to the people. Another possible derivation is from the Spanish for "Holy Mass
