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A Sinulog Festival Queen carrying the image of Santo Niño, representing Toledo City in 2023. The street dancers performs at South Road Properties.. The Sinulog Festival (as known as Sinug and Sulog) is an annual cultural and religious festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu, with the center of the activities being in Cebu City, and is the centre of the Santo Niño Christian ...
The Sinulog procession includes dancing and fiesta in reverence of Santo Nino. Above, a Sinulog participant carrying a copy of the Santo Nino statue. The festival officially ends on the Friday after the Holy Child's feast day, and it is marked with the traditional Hubò (Cebuano, "undress") rite.
The date may change soon as it has been separated from the Dinagyang Festival since 2020 [24] Dinagyang Festival: 4th Sunday Iloilo City: Honours the Santo Niño and the pact between the island's aboriginal peoples and migrant Bornean Datus: Ibajay Ati-Ati Municipal and Devotional Fiesta [25] 4th Sunday Ibajay, Aklan: Honours the Santo Niño
The Santo Niño de Tondo is the second-oldest venerated image of the Child Jesus in the country, next to the Santo Niño de Cebu. On February 5, 2019, the church was elevated to the rank of Archdiocesan Shrine, with the Archdiocese of Manila recognising its spiritual, historical, and cultural importance, and the devotion to the Santo Niño de ...
The Calendar of the Archdiocese of Cebu is based on the General Roman Calendar and the Philippine Standard Calendar. Below are the following additions and changes to the calendar. 3 January – Most Holy Name of Jesus, titular of the archdiocese – Solemnity; Third Sunday of January (2025 date: 19 January) – Santo Niño de Cebú – Solemnity
Poro, officially the Municipality of Poro (Cebuano: Lungsod sa Poro; Tagalog: Bayan ng Poro), is a municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 26,232 people. [3] The patronal feast of Poro is celebrated on the third Friday of January, in honour of the Santo Niño de Cebu.
This same year marked the introduction of the image of Santo Niño to Panay, making it the third oldest Santo Niño image in the Philippines, after Cebu and Tondo. [ 2 ] The following year, in 1582, Santo Niño de Arevalo was declared a parish, with Fr. Diego Velasquez serving as its first parish priest.
The founding of the settlement Mandawe on April 7, 1521, has historical value and significance in the history of Cebu. In order to commemorate the city's foundation, a festival was conceptualized and came to be known as the Mantawi Festival. [2] The festival was a project started by the former mayor of Mandaue City.