The feast day is preceded by a novena, nine days of prayer, in honor of the Virgin. On the first day, the image of the Virgin, a copy of the Madonna in Peñafrancia, Spain, is brought from its shrine to the Naga Cathedral where the novena is held. ... When the barge reaches its destination, the devotees shout "Viva la Virgen" (Long live the Virgin!) ... The yearly "feast of feast-. begins with a "traslacion-, i.e. the transferring of the miraculous Images of the Virgin, Our Lady of Peñafrancia and the Divino Rostro to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Naga City for a Novena of Praye...

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