2019, February 5
March 9, 2019
Thousands of devotees, guests and visitors from all over the Philippines and abroad witnessed on Tuesday the solemn declaration of Saint John the Baptist Parish in Badoc, Ilocos Norte as a minor basilica.
In the Philippines, the 200-year old Basilica Minore of Saint John the Baptist, where the La Virgen Milagrosa de Badoc is currently enshrined, became the 14th of its kind that was granted with privileges, obligations, and conditions as a minor Basilica.