[1] The architect of the Badoc Basilica is Brother Antonio Estavillo, OSA, who also built the Church of St. Augustine in Paoay, which is recognized as a world heritage site.

[3] As a Marian shrine, the church houses the statue of the miraculous Virgin Mary, the Virgen Milagrosa.

It is said to have been given to the sea by Christians in Japan who were in secret because of the persecution during the Tokugawa regime, along with a miraculous statue of Christ of the Black Nazarene.

Sonny Umali de Armas of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio received from Laoag Bishop Renato Pine Mayugba and Fr.

The Apo Badoc devotion is also observed in Santa Pudenziana and San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa, Rome (2019) and in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Heilbronn.