Penafrancia Basilica

The Penafrancia Minor Basilica or the Minor Basilica of the Our Lady of Penafrancia is a Roman Catholic Minor Basilica positioned on the outskirts of Naga City also called the Pilgrim City and Queen City of Bicol inside the Bicol Region of the Philippines.

It is one of the biggest Marian Pilgrimage Sites in Asia. The Image of Our Lady of Penafrancia is enshrined on this sanctuary. Rev. Fr. Rodel Cajot is the present Rector of the Basilica, having been appointed in 2011. The idea for the constructing got here from the overdue Archbishop Pedro Paulo Santos y Songco in 1960. Construction commenced on April 18, 1976, but was not on time for some of years because of financing problems and turned into no longer completed till September 1981. On May 22, 1982, it was dedicated as The Church of Nuestra Senora de Pena de Francia and it wasn't until May 22, 1985 that the church became given the identify of "Basilica Minore" from Rome after a request from the third Archbishop of Caceres, Leonardo Z. Legaspi, O.P., D.D.