Our Lady of Caysasay is a celebrated 17th-century image of the Immaculate Conception. In the small bario of Caysasay in Taal Batangas, a fisherman Juan Maningcad found the little statue of the Blessed Virgin Of the Immaculate Conceptio soaked in the water instead of catching a fish with his net in a river nearby the sea, He picked it up and brought it home. No one knew how the image got to the river, according to the old folks, the image was thrown by one of the spaniards to facify the ravages of the ravages of the ocean during one of those expeditions and somehow the waves pushed it to the river, some believe it became from China and another opinion was that perhaps someone exploring the river accidentally dropped it. The news began to spread until it reached the priest in town.They immediately went to Juan Maningcad's house and they knelt down and took the image to Taal where the town fiesta was celebrated.
The widow of the Justice of the Peace by the name of Madam Maria Espiritu, was given the task of caring for the image. She ordered a precious urn to be made for the image and kept it in her home. Every evening she noticed that the urn turned empty and the image gone, but then in the morning it would be back in its usual place. Worried about these disappearances, the widow told the story to the priest. He accompanied her back to her house and indeed saw that the urn was empty, but soon the urn opened and there appeared Mary's image before them. For several times, in spite of the watch made by the priest, the same events would happen that made the priest and others perplexed, not knowing what the desire of the Virgin was. After sometime, the priest decided to take the image to the Church for safekeeping but it was in vain. The image continued to leave the church until one day it completely disappeared and was nowhere to be found. Years later, in 1611, two women gathering firewood saw the image reflected in the spring water, near the place where it was originally found. They looked up, and saw the image on top of a tall sampaguita bush. The women reported what they saw to the parish priest. The people and the priest concluded that it was the Virgin’s wish to stay in Caysasay. So they built a chapel on the very spot where the image was found.
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