IMUS, Cavite - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle bid farewell to his hometown of Imus in Cavite on Monday before his expected transfer to Rome.
In a Mass at Our Lady of the Pillar, he thanked all those who attended the celebration, including some public officials.
“This kind of celebration gives me strength,” a teary-eyed Cardinal Tagle said.
It was the same cathedral where the cardinal was baptized a Catholic, and where he was ordained priest in 1982 and bishop in 2001.