The icon is a small, painted panel of the Blessed Virgin Mary in robes of blue with gold hems, cradling the Christ Child.

The Virgin wears jewellery and a royal eight-arched Crown (inspired by Spanish regalia), her head surrounded by a halo of twelve stars.

Legend tells that the icon was found by an itinerant Chinese merchant named Tan Ho-Co, the progenitor of the Tanjutco Family.

During a flood, the icon suddenly manifested in the waters and fixed itself to the hull of the outrigger boat, preventing it from sinking and saving the passengers.

The icon is enshrined in a wooden frame surrounded by flowers and carved columns, placed above the altar of its small, private oratory along San Francisco Street, Biglang Awa Village, part of the town's Barangay Población.