Google+A send off Mass will be celebrated at the San Pedro Calungsod Shrine along D. Jakosalem Street in Cebu City at 4 p.m. today.
After the Eucharistic celebration, a motorcade will bring Calungsod’s image to a Cebu City pier where the vessel that would carry the sacred icon to Ilo-Ilo awaits.
Fr. Charles Jayme, the official custodian of the image, said the Church would want to perpetuate Calungsod’s memory.
“This (Duaw Nasud) is our continued propagation of the devotion to San Pedro Calungsod,” he said in a text message to Cebu Daily News.
For 11 days, the image of San Pedro Calungsod will travel again to different churches in Panay and Romblon slands.
It will be brought back to Cebu on May 10.
UP-Cebu Intern Apple Mae Ta-as
Cebu Daily News
(c. 1654 – 2 April 1672) was a young Roman Catholic Filipino migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist, who along with Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, suffered religious persecution and martyrdom on Guam for their missionary work in 1672. Through Calungsod and San Vitores' missionary efforts, many native Chamorros converted to Roman Catholicism.
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