Santa Marian Kamalen

Santa Marian Kamalen also known as Our Lady of Camarin and informally known as Dulce Nombre (English: Sweet Name) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a carved molave wood and ivory image venerated by the Roman Catholic faithful in Guam as their Patroness.

The image is known to have escaped the Japanese war and bombing of Guam on 8 December 1941, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

[3] Although its origins are unknown, pious legends claim that the image was brought by Spaniards through the Galleon ship Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza y Santiago which was shipwrecked on 2 June 1690 at the Cocos Island of Guam.

Every year on December 8, Our Lady of Camarin is honored with a procession in which a statue of the patroness is pulled on a cart amid the prayers of thousands of the island's Catholics.

[5] A replica image was installed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., on 17 September 2006.

Statue of Santa Marian Kamalen on Santa Marian Kamalen Day at Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica, December 8, 2022