Hugot Cofradia

15/07/2024

11/07/2023

- SOLEMNITY OF OUR HOLY FATHER ST. BENEDICT

St. Benedict is believed to have been born around 480, as the son to a Roman noble of Norcia and the twin to his sister, Scholastica. His main achievement, is his famous Rule that contains a set of rules for his monks which shows a unique spirit of balance, moderation and reasonableness, which persuaded most Christian religious communities founded throughout the Middle Ages to adopt it. As a result, his Rule became one of the most influential religious rules in Western Christendom earned him the title the “Father of Western Monasticism.”

On his feast day, St Benedict's bread, medals and crucifixes are exorcised and blessed.

11/07/2023

The Visage of Our Patriarch

The venerated image of San Benito Abad is a fruit of piety and devotion with the desire of the Brotherhood to have a venerable image that is not only be utilized in liturgy but also moves the faithful to devotion.

Garbed in the choir dress of a 17th to 18th century Benedictine Abbot, the de vestir image took inspiration from different images of St. Benedict found in European Abbeys, especially within the Iberian Peninsula, with the elements of traditional Filipino Santo carving as seen in different antique Filipino santos from the carving of the beard, facial features, and among others.

The image was carved by Mr. James Renemil Bernarte upon recommendation of Mr. Leo Angelo de Castro in 2022 and was blessed by the Very Rev. Fr. Gerardo Ma. de Villa, OSB, Chaplain of the Hermandad on the 19th of June that same year, on the Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christi. The San Benito image was first exposed for veneration the following July and gained admiration from the faithful within and outside the diocese.

In recent memory, there were already testimonies of miracles that are attributed to the image of San Benito from its first home in Bacoor, Cavite where seamstresses would often pray to San Benito and receive favors from him along with cures and other graces that were obtained through our patron saint.

11/07/2023

20/10/2022

Maligayang Kapistahan ni Sta. Magdalena de Nagasaki, Patrona ng Orden Tercera ng Augustinong Recoleto