At least 101 images of the Santo Niño take center stage at an exhibit at the San Guillermo Parish in Bacolor, Pampanga. The church is dubbed the "Sunken Church" as half of it sank in lahar during the ...

Other celebrations occur throughout January. Before a Mass at the parish, the faithful placed dozens of images and statues of the Santo Nino de Cebu on the steps of the altar. Jesus is depicted as ...

The images of the faithful celebrating the feast ... According to tradition, Ferdinand Magellan gave an image of the Santo Niño to Queen Juana, the wife of the king of Cebu, a gesture that ...

The Philippines has a special privilege to reserve the third Sunday of the first month of the year to celebrate the child Jesus—the Santo Niño, which is one of the first religious images to ...

CEBU, Philippines — Images of the Santo Niño have, through the years, evolved in many ways. This year’s Sinulog saw some images dressed in police uniform and even in fabrics bearing famous ...

to attend Mass and to have their Santo Niño images blessed on Sunday. It was, in fact, raining holy water from a balcony of the side of the church, as priests and their assistants sprinkled huge ...

The Benedictine Abbey Church of Our Lady of Montserrat in Manila maintains two images of the Santo Niño: Santo Niño de Praga, holding pride of place on the main altar; another, generic type in a glass ...

CEBU, Philippines — It is not often brought up in conversations among Cebuanos, but the Santo Niño de Cebu is ... place as early as the mid-1790s. PHOTOS: www.pragjesu.cz; Wikimedia Commons ...

Devotees, young and old, carried their own images of the Santo Niño and lit candles as they prayed the holy rosary, and sang liturgical hymns during the two-kilometer procession called “Walk ...

Out came the images in all sizes and designs. A couple even dressed up in velvet and gold in Santo Nino inspired costume. Other women in green, yellow, and orange gowns swayed in the rhythm of the ...

Priests and lay ministers usually bless images of the Santo Niño after each novena Mass. Devotees just to hold their Christ-child images aloft near the center aisle so it may be sprinkled with ...

People’s choice seems to incline toward the Santo Niño, because there are other venerated images aside from the Santo Niño de Cebu feted on a date different from the rest: for example, the Santo Niño ...