Easter Blessing from "Apo Resurreccion"

 Easter Blessing from "Apo Resurreccion" 

Dr Abe V Rotor

We wish to ask in prayer the blessings of our Apo Resurreccion to all our blog members and viewers (avrotor.blogspot.com), radio listeners , and to all whose lives they touch in turn, and to the management of Google (Blog), and TATAKalikasan Ateneo de Manila University 87.9 FM Radyo Katipunan, and former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School on Air) 736AM Radyo ng Bayan.

Apo Resureccion has been with us in our ancestral home for four generations now. Life size to a typical Filipino, the icon is enclosed in a three-side glass housing for better viewing of visitors and pilgrims.

Nothing has changed in the Apo except his linen and some signs of getting old, so to speak. The icon is made of one-piece wood carved faithfully from head to foot. No one can tell in my generation and that of my dad's who the model was.  No explanation can be offered on how the holy icon transformed beyond the limits of any mortal model. 

San Vicente is traditionally famous for furniture and icon saints. It is the Paete of the north, as often compared; it is a local seat of Renaissance art. The town takes pride with a distinction of producing professionals,  leading farmers, artisans, and leaders, notwithstanding,  in practically all fields of human endeavor.  The ratio of professionals per one thousand population is one of the highest in the country, and in fact, in the world. ~