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The Mass Miracle: Public Religion in the Postwar Philippines
- Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
- Ateneo de Manila University
- Volume 62, Numbers 3-4, September-December 2014
- pp. 425-444
- 10.1353/phs.2014.0019
- Article
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From November 1948 to March 1949, petals of roses fell from the sky on the grounds outside of a Carmelite convent in the town of Lipa, Batangas. The petals and stories about them circulated at local, national, and international levels, giving rise to a variety of interpretations of their significance. This article examines the rose petals of Lipa as both a phenomenon to be mediated and a medium in its own right, in order to propose the need to rethink the common category of “popular religion.”