A visiting Redemptorist from the north took notice and in 1948 brought the Novena to Baclaran in Manila to a small chapel holding only seventy people. Well that grew to the huge Shrine with one hundred thousand people every Wednesday. But it all started here in this Church with Father Manton. There's a saying that no one is irreplaceable. I've never agreed with that idea.
Some people are irreplaceable.
Father Manton is irreplaceable. Sure, we will continue conducting the Novena devotions. You will continue to take part in our Novena devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual Help. But it will never be the same again without Father Manton. I want to add this thought.