Virgen de los Remedios de Pampanga

Virgin of Remedies Patroness of Pampanga
The canonically crowned image presently enshrined in the Cathedral of San Fernando, Pampanga
Virgin of Remedies, Queen of Pampanga
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Feast	September 8, Feast of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Attributes	The Blessed Virgin Mary encrusted with jewels and golden crown and aureole halo.
Patronage	Pampanga, Kapampangan people
Controversy	Suppression of Communism

Virgen de los Remedios de la Pampanga also known as Indu Ning Capaldanan is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by the Roman Catholic faithful Capampangans in Pampanga, Philippines.

Under this particular title, Mary is officially designated as the Patroness of Pampanga and was granted its official title and given a Canonical Coronation by Pope Pius XII through a Papal Bull dated 15 July 1956, while its official feast is celebrated on the Feast of Nativity of Mary.

The paired devotion alongside with a crucifix called Santo Cristo Del Perdon is highlighted in a prayer apostolate known as Crusaders for Penance and Charity, a prayer group started by women which focused on Catholic social justice for the poor and the destitute and was once instituted to combat Communism.

In the 1950s after the Second World War, the province of Pampanga was plagued with Communism which threatened both the Catholic religion and social order in the Philippines. The lower and the middle class laity conflicted with wealthy landowners which caused much political conflict in the region.

The Archbishop of Pampanga at the time, Cesar Maria Guerrero decided to foster a the Marian devotion( this devotion was happened before, during the Spanish regime in 1574 in Manila and Pampanga) again to pacify the problems encountered by his people. Guerrero was originally from the town of Malate where a similar image of Our Lady of Remedies already venerated in Manila and in Pampanga dating from the Castillian period when the Philippines was still a colonial territory of the Kingdom of Spain.

Guerrero requested the image of the Immaculate Conception, already venerated as Our Lady of Remedies from Baliti, Pampanga to be borrowed in San Fernando to help with a new apostolate do towards peace and reconciliation, called Crusaders of Penance and Charity. Great piety and monetary donations garnered primarily due to the wealthy noblewomen and widows who contributed into the religious group, along with the consistent religious processions and recitations of Rosary which made the devotion popular among the masses. A systematic bylaws for the apostolate was created, making the group organized and much more official for growth and ecclesiastical recognition.