The word turumba is alleged to be from the Tagalog phrase “Natumbá sa lakí ng tuwâ” (English: "Had trembled in great joy").

They quickly told the parish priest, who in turn called the sacristans, choristers, and churchgoers at Mass to fetch the image.

Homage to the Virgin of Sorrows is done by the way of song and dance, drumbeat and shill cries of its devotees of Sa Birhen that the people regard as co-sharing with Mary's grief during the Passion of Christ.

The statue is enshrined at the retablo in the main altar, The image is usually dressed in violet as a sign of sorrow for Christ's passion (the liturgical color of Lent).

The original icon found in the waters is enshrined in a separate retablo around bas reliefs of her Seven Sorrows in a chapel inside the church.

The original icon was canonically crowned by Archbishop Charles John Brown, Apostolic nuncio to the Philippines, on 15 September 2023, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.

As closing remarks of the coronation events, the original statue was solemnly crowned[a] on 24 September 2023 at the Saint Paul the First Hermit Cathedral in San Pablo, Laguna with a Mass presided by the emeritus Bishop of Novaliches, Antonio Realubin Tobias.