gadaoIpaga, baptized as Ignacio, was from the village of Sunharon, Tinian. He allegedly had an apparition of the Blessed Virgin on August 17, 1668. His apparition consisted of the Blessed Virgin complaining of the wickedness of Saipan, referring to the wounds that Father Luis de Morales received three days earlier. The form of which the vision appeared entailed the same image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico, which he had seen an oratory in one of the father's residences. Instead of her hands being together as in the image of the Immaculate Concepcion, she held two children as if she were nursing them at her breast. Next to her were eight larger children (referring to children in heaven or being schooled under Christian doctrine), who with a leash of eight strands led a dog to the feet of the Virgin, in spite of its resistance and bark; the barking referring to Choco pitting the Chamorros against the evils of baptism. (Garcia, 2004:194 & Risco, Ledesma, & Calvo, 1970:134)

UPDATE March 11, 2013: Ignatius Ipapa - Father Peter Coomans (2000:31) cites Ignacio as Ignatius and indicates his family name was "Ipapa."

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