the Madonna makes her home among the brown race

Sun.Star Cebu - Yena Tam Ngamin Yena Tam Ngamin After rejection for being too brown, the Madonna makes her home among the brown race. Jenara Regis Newman traces this great irony. That’s Ibanag for Mother To Us All. It is the name of a coffee table book about the miraculous Brown Madonna of the Cagayan River Valley. The Madonna, whose other title is Our Lady of the Rosary, and which has been renamed Our Lady of Piat, came to the Philippines when the Dominicans were expelled from Macau by the Portuguese. In Manila, the statue was deemed too brown; the preference was for statues with ivory heads.