The Virgin of the vulnerable lake: Catholic engagement with climate change in the Philippines

• Main Author: Peracullo, Jeane
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Climatic changes—Philippines > Religious aspects; Religion
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2728
• Institution: De La Salle University

In the Philippines, popular belief has it that the image of the Virgen de Caysasay was fished out of the Pansipit River in 1603. Since then, many miraculous healing events, mostly involving water, have been credited to it. The prevalence of water highlights the vulnerability of physical bodies again...