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| According to the old traditional story, there was a fisheman fishing in the midst of the seas of Cambaquiz, Cabilao Island. |
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| One time, he suddenly caught a wooden cross after a pariod of time that he didn't able to catch fishes even a single. |
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| After the moment of wondering, he threw the cross back into the sea, sure enough that the cross would not to be caught again. |
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| But after few moments, he caught the wooden cross again and still, he didn't caught fishes. Then he threw it again. It happened three times in the midst of the sea. |
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| After finding it in he third time, bothered, he took the wooden cross and set it aside. Then suddenly, he got a huge school of fishes. For the residents of the island, this was a great miracle from up above. |
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| After he got the cross, he set it on his boat to dry. |
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| Later that night, the Lord appeared to the fisherman in a dream. The Lord told him to bulit a church for His Holy Cross where it would be honored and venerated. And there born the faith of the residents in the island. Clearly, the chapel was built in Brgy. Cambaquiz in the shore near the miracle's occurence. Later, the Parish church was erected in Brgy. Talisay, but the chapel in the Brgy. Cambaquiz remains as the pilgrimage site of the Holy Cross, the Cross where God offered His life for us. |
