Abstract
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. Thisarticle 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.”KEYWORDS: Religion • Catholicism • The Mass Media • Miracles • Transnationalism
Recommended Citation
de la Cruz, Deirdre
(2014)
"The Mass Miracle: Public Religion in the Postwar Philippines,"
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints: Vol. 62:
No.
3, Article 6.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol62/iss3/6
