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It was then located at a certain room in the convent. Old church documents dating back to the 17th century, antique church furniture, antique church things (i.e. Chalice, Altar Table, Thurible, etc.), and antique vestments of the priests are in display. The old vestments of the Sto. Niño de Cebu dating back to the 17th century are also in display.
The church structure was destroyed several times over and was finally rebuilt with a permanent structure made from coralstone much later. The coralstone church structure is the Basilica that we see today. During World War II, the Japanese forces dropped bombs from their planes all over Cebu, including the Basilica.
It was blessed by Cebu Archbishop José S. Palma on the same day. [3] The chapel itself covers an area of 300 square meters (3,200 sq ft) [2] and can accommodate 150 worshippers. [4] The facade was inspired from the Santo Niño image's crown [5] and the wavy structure of Terminal 2 of Mactan–Cebu International Airport (MCIA). [2]
Magellan's Cross Pavilion is a stone kiosk in Cebu City, Philippines.The structure is situated on Plaza Sugbo beside the Basilica del Santo Niño. [1] It houses a Christian cross that was planted by explorers of the Spanish expedition of the first circumnavigation of the world, led by Ferdinand Magellan, upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521.
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-Santo Niño 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 ...
Churchgoers lighting candles in the Church of Tondo. The Santo Niño de Tondo is considered the second-oldest venerated image of the Child Jesus in the country, next to the Santo Niño de Cebu. On February 5, 2019, the Parish of Santo Nino de Tondo was elevated as an Archdiocesan Shrine.
It is known that the first church is the cathedral now because by 1598 there were two churches besides it in Cebu: San Nicolas (founded in 1584) and the Sto. Niño convent to which the two churches would administer the natives, while the first Cebu bishop Pedro de Agurto would cater to the Spaniards in the St. Vitalis Church chosen as the ...
Logo of the Province of Sto. Niño de Cebu, Philippines ca. 1983. The first group of Augustinians, under the leadership of the Venerable Andres Urdaneta, came to the Philippines in 1565 from Spain through Mexico as the pioneers in the Catholic Church's task of evangelization in that part of the globe.