A Blast from the Past: Edsa Shrine
The main idea of a "Shrine of Peace" is to serve as a memorial about the People Power Revolution that came as an inspired thought to Jaime Cardinal Sin two days after President Ferdinand Marcos fled to exile in Hawaii. The Cardinal was riding in the vehicle together with Bishop Gabriel Reyes, then Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, passed to the way to Camp Aguinaldo where they were to celebrate a Thanksgiving Mass. They came upon the intersection of EDSA and Ortigas, and Bishop Reyes pointed it out to the Cardinal Sin as the spot where intrepid but gentle nuns and young men and women stand in front of the tanks and offer flowers to the soldier. At that corner , on an empty lot had stood two huge billboards of the Family Rosary Crusade, featuring the image of the Blessed virgin Mary with a message inscribed in it saying, "The Family that prays together, stays together" and also "A world at prayer is a world at Peace". The felicitous coincidence could not but...





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