[4] On 25 March 1626, the galleon trading ship El Almirante left Acapulco, Mexico, carrying the newly appointed governor-general of the Spanish East Indies, Don Juan Niño de Tabora, who brought with him the statue.

[5] During construction of the Antipolo church in the 1630s, the image would mysteriously vanish several times from its shrine, only to reappear atop a tipolo tree (a type of breadfruit; Artocarpus blancoi, which is native to the Philippines and had spread to Latin America).

Fearing for the statue's safety, governor Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera ordered its transfer to Cavite, where it was temporarily enshrined.

governor Hurtado later ordered the statue removed from its Cavite shrine in 1648, and it was shipped back to Mexico aboard the galleon San Luis.

To save the image, the church's head sacristan, Procopio Ángeles, wrapped it in a thick woollen blanket and placed it in an empty petrol drum, which he then buried in a nearby kitchen.

Fighting between imperial Japanese troops and the combined American and Filipino forces drove Ángeles and other devotees on 19 February 1945 to exhume the image and move it to Sitio Colaique on the border with Angono.

On the evening of 30 April, thousands of devotees from Metro Manila customarily perform the Alay Lakad (literally, “Walk Offering”), where pilgrims spend the night travelling on foot to the shrine, where they hear Mass at dawn.

On 6 June 1868, a young José Rizal and his father Don Francisco Mercado, visited the shrine in thanksgiving after the boy and his mother, Teodora Alonso Realonda, survived her delivery in 1861.

Since 2019, the Solemnity of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage is celebrated on this day, pursuant to a decree dated 21 May 2018 by the former Bishop of Antipolo, Francisco Mendoza de Leon.