Mater Dolorosa / Diocese of Tarlac photo
Diocese of Tarlac Bishop Enrique Macaraeg thanked the Vatican for the privilege after the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of Sacraments granted the petition of the diocese October 1 last year. The canonical coronation of the Mater Dolorosa was the first to be approved by the Vatican in Tarlac
“It was my deepest honor as a bishop of Tarlac to have petitioned to the Holy Father Pope Francis through the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments last July 2020 for the canonical coronation of the venerated image of the Mater Dolorosa in Barangay Dolores, Capas, Tarlac. The petition was granted last October 1, 2020 on the Feast of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, giving the Diocese of Tarlac its very first Marian image to be canonically crowned,” Macaraeg said over Radio Veritas.