Icon
The original icon depicting Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of Manaoag is a 17th-century Roman Catholic ivory image of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. It is enshrined in the high altar of its Minor Basilica in the town of Manaoag, in the province of Pangasinan, in the Northern part of the Philippines. This was canonically crowned in 1926.
Worldwide, Our Lady of the Rosary is depicted by the same images essentially of the Blessed Virgin Mary with The Child Jesus on her left arm. These figures vary basically in the material used, the rendition by the respective artists, the regalia, and the style of the vestments according to the native culture.
The icon of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of Manaoag can thus be distinguished from the other icons of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary by its distinctive sculpture and magnificently exquisite regalia, and most especially by her crown.
It should be understood that The Real Mary, The True Mother of Jesus Christ, is in point of fact the one being addressed as Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of Manaoag. Mary is the one actually performing the miracles, granting the requests, or formidably interceding for the prayers of those that implore her miracles or most powerful intercessions and not the inanimate icon in all its majestic royal and opulent grandeur. The veneration, devotion, and prayers should be appropriately directed to the Blessed Virgin Mary and not to her icon depicting her in any of her various titles. It would not be just a fallacy but a sin of idolatry.
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