Discovering Cabilao Island Series - The Untold Miracle of the Holy Cross

Cabilao Island is a dominant Catholic. Their patron is the Holy Cross, in which they venerated and honored. But behind that glorious triumph of Catholicism in the island, there is a traditional story that tells on how the island got it's patron, the Holy Cross. Exclusive here in our WS Blog, we present this simplified illustrations of the historical background of the Holy Cross as the patron of the island.

According to the old traditional story, there was a fisheman
fishing in the midst of the seas of Cambaquiz, Cabilao Island.

One time, he suddenly caught a wooden cross after a pariod
of time that he didn't able to catch fishes even a single.

After the moment of wondering, he threw the cross back into
the sea, sure enough that the cross would not to be caught again.

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.

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.

After he got the cross, he set it on his boat to dry.

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.