Ntra. Sra. del Perpetuo Socorro de Singapur (Novena Church)
Founded by the Redeemer missionaries in 1935 and popularly known as the Ninth Church, the church of St. Alfonso, on Thomson Road, is the great center of Marian devotion in Singapore: a church of devotion dedicated to the Virgin of Perpetual Relief, whose original icon has been in keeping the Redeemers in Rome since 1866 on behalf of Pius IX.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The ninth on Saturdays to the Virgin of Perpetual Relief, started in 1949, gather ten weekly sessions with thousands of devotees each, including numerous non-Catholics.
- The devotion named the entire neighborhood: the district of Nova, in the centre of Singapore, is named after the ninth of this church.
- The 1950 building was expanded with a new Gothic-style temple blessed by Archbishop William Goh on October 25, 2017.
- Since 1953 it has held an annual procession on the first Sunday of September, which in 1970 brought together some 30,000 devotees.
Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro (Singapur)
Regulated by the Redemptorists under the Archdiocese of Singapore, it is the heart of the Marian piety of the city-state. Its ninth sabatines are a unique devotional phenomenon, which also attracts the faithful of other faiths.
🙏 Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for us.
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