Santa Maria Magdalena

As part of the celebrating the feast day of Mary Magdalen, here I present you a "Santo Feature" giving you Sta. Maria Magdalena of Cuenca, Batangas. Magdalena as we local calls her is a wooden debulto image, meaning hollowed inside, making the image lightweight compared to solid ones. She is also part of the original "Tres Maria's" namely Veronica, Salome and Magdalena later Quatro Maria's as Maria Jacobe(Cleofe) was added in 2009. She is well known to us the most beautiful of all, having no angel to seek for, with those emotion of the eyes, more of a Dolorosa, one will try to seek her more. What's also interesting about her is how she and the Marias survived the War, other images in the did not, Entierro on the other hand did along with Paciencia, Sto. Cristo and San Isidro. According to my friend Jay-Ar Cabasaan(chunchiness), Magdalena was used as safe for jewels, and this was probably used for the repairs of the recamadero's house. At present the image is in the home of its owner thou not having a urna, we make monthly inspection for her. For now she needs repairs, an encarna and new accessories.

Photos courtesy of Jay-Ar Cabasaan(chunchiness) via Flickr