Cardinal Sanchez’ remains laid to rest in Catanduanes

VIRAC, Catanduanes — The remains of Cardinal Jose Thomas Sanchez, the fifth Filipino cardinal, were reinterred on Friday evening, March 17, at his home diocese of Virac in Catanduanes province.

It was the day he would have turned 103 years old.

Sanchez’s remains, which arrived Thursday, were reinterred at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Virac town after being exhumed from the crypt of the Diocese of Novaliches Cathedral in Quezon City.

The reinterment came after the Most Reverend Manolo Alarkon De Los Santos, bishop of Virac, stated in a Diocesan circular released March 10, his “fervent prayers to have the deceased prelate’s remains buried on the island of his birth…

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