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The National Shrine and Parish of the Divine Mercy is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Divine Mercy in Marilao, Bulacan, the Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Malolos. It was elevated to the status of National Shrine by Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
The Divine Mercy Statue is found within the grounds of the National Shrine. The structure, which has a total height of 45.72 metres (150.0 feet), consists of the statue itself standing at 30.48 meters (100.0 ft), and the building serving as its podium which is 15.24 meters (50.0 ft) tall. [ 2 ]
Marilao ([mɐɾiˈlaʊ]), officially the Municipality of Marilao (Tagalog: Bayan ng Marilao), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 254,453 people.
Together with the basilica at present, there are eight (8) more shrines in the diocese: the Parish of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, Valenzuela City (1976); the National Shrine and Parish of St. Anne, Hagonoy, (1991); the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy, Marilao; the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, San ...
The shrine is located near the Our Lady of Fatima University campus in Marulas, Valenzuela City in Metro Manila, Philippines. [2] The shrine is one of the three major pilgrimage sites in the Diocese of Malolos, with the National Shrine of St. Anne in Hagonoy and the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Marilao as the other sites.
Mother of Mercy Statue Virgin Mary Calbiga, Samar: 2022 21.3 m (70 ft) Located on top of the St. Padre Pio Shrine in Brgy. Timbangan, Calbiga, Samar, a few meters from the 36.5 m (120 ft) Divine Mercy Shrine. Constructed through the initiative of the Franciscan Sisters of the Divine Mercy.
The shrine was completed in 2015 when the parish priest is Father Vicente "Vic" Robles, the former rector and parish priest of the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Marilao, Bulacan. [ 1 ] The church is to be dedicated to the Korean Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, the first Korean-born Catholic priest.
The words used in the Bible in Hebrew to designate mercy, including divine mercy, are rakham (Exodus 34:6; Isaiah 55:7), khanan (Deut. 4:31) and khesed (Nehemiah 9:32). [2]In the Greek of the New Testament and of the Septuagint, the word most commonly used to designate mercy, including divine mercy, is eleos.