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Our Lady of Cabra Island

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Our Lady of Cabra Island is the title of the Blessed Virgin Mary who reportedly appeared to a sixth grader, Belinda Villas, and her seven friends, also sixth graders from the same village school, Cabra Elementary School. She was seen during the years from 1966 to 1972, as a "beautiful lady wearing a white robe and a blue sash around her waist".

History

School principal Juana V. Torreliza had urged them from the beginning to jot down the details of their encounters with the lady who, speaking in the island's Tagalog language, told them with a smile and in a sweet and reassuring voice, "Ako ang Immaculada Concepcion." The account led to a growing number of pilgrims from Manila and other islands.

Their individual stories, notes, photographs, and the messages from the "lady bathed in light, and always smiling, always with a kindly expression on her face" were documented and published in the 1978 book "The Apparitions of Cabra Islet". Copies can be found in many Catholic colleges' libraries, including the National Library of the Philippines and the U.S. Library of Congress.

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Our Lady of Cabra Island Wikipedia