About three gold necklaces and six bracelets that were placed on the Sto. Niño image housed in a glass box were stolen by still unidentified burglars at the Redemptorist Church in barangay Camputhaw, Cebu City at 6 p.m last Tuesday.
Giant bees, serpents and spiders towered over the city streets on Sunday, but the hundreds of thousands of revelers who came were thrilled rather than scared by the hideous creatures.
With just a few days of catechism, which consisted mostly of rhetorical remarks by Ferdinand Magellan, it would have been impossible for King Humabon and the people of Cebu during his time to have fully understood the Christian faith brought to them by the Spaniards in 1521.
She just closed her eyes the entire time, but not even her frail figure could stop the oldest Sinulog dancer and “heritage keeper” from attending the annual prayer-dance held on Jan. 21, a day after the Feast of the Holy Child Jesus in Cebu, at Casa Gorordo Museum on Lopez Jaena Street in Cebu City.
Tens of thousands of revelers braved the heat of the sun to witness Cebu’s grandest and biggest celebration, the Sinulog Grand Parade, on Sunday
She was known as the “Keeper of the Sinulog Beat” who hit the drums, sang Latin songs and led children and young adults in dancing to the traditional Sinulog steps come the third week of January.
The Sinulog, celebrated every third Sunday of January, is one of Cebu’s biggest and most popular festivals. An annual dance ritual in honor of the Sto. Niño, it was originally of pagan origin.
Show your devotion to the Child Jesus not only by joining processions. An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on Saturday issued this call to Sto. Niño devotees converging in Tondo, Manila, for a feast today.
Someone who grew up with the tradition of the Sto. Niño longs to dance the sinulog, her personal offering to the Child Jesus after a year full of difficulties and blessings. People have grown accustomed to seeing her do this every January. The grace of her movements, and the smile on her lips, come not [...]
There is little doubt that Humabon’s wife, who had days before been christened Juana, had been gifted by Magellan with the image of the Sto. Niño with the admonition to destroy all the idols and the shrines that were lining the seashore. This fact is undisputed in Relazione del Primo Viaggio Intorno al Mondo (Account [...]
When the general is away, someone should take his place. A new feature of this year’s solemn foot procession of the Señor Sto. Niño during the vesperas or eve of the feast day is a ceremonial turnover at the Basilica del Sto. Niño.
VELVET clothes and capes are in demand by Sto. Niño devotees.
A wet, chilly dawn didn’t stop thousands of people from joing the annual “Walk with Jesus” that opened the religious feast of the Sto. Niñi de Cebu.
