Our Lady of the Rule of Opon, Cebu

 

This is an image of Our Lady venerated in the island of Mactan, in Cebu. Our Lady of the Rule was originally made by St. Augustine of Hippo which was later brought to Chipiona in Spain.

                                                        The original image in Chipiona
The devotion arrived in Mactan or Opon in 1735 when Father Francisco de Avalle, an Augustinian priest brought a painting from Spain. Many miracles happened under the image, and a statue was later made.

                                               The image brought by Father de Avalle
After the Revolution of 1898, the Augustinians stopped administering the parish and it was succeeded by the  Irish Redemptorist Fathers for a while, then later by the Dutch Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, which still administer the church under the Novus Ordo. During the World War, the church was semi-destroyed but in the 1960s, the Dutch priests demolished the old Spanish era church and a new edifice was built in its place. Its feast falls on November 21, the feast of the Presentation of Our Lady. The image was crowned in 1954. 
                                         The coronation of the image. Archbishop Julio Rosales
                                          of Cebu is in the middle
                                           


                             The Spanish era church which was demolished by the Dutch priests.

Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis


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