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About 700 came together Saturday to mark the 13th annual Santo Nino Fiesta at St. Justin Martyr Catholic Church in Anaheim. Kevin Vann, Bishop of Orange, delivered a Mass of the Feast of the Holy Infant and blessed statues large and small.
The first statue of Santo Niño was presented to the queen of Cebu in the 16th century. Moved by the innocent and kind face of the child Jesus, she converted to Catholicism and was baptized. Ferdinand Magellan planted the Cross of Christianity on the day she was baptized, and devotion to Santo Nino has spread in Cebu and across the Philippines ever since.
Over the next few years, the Santo Nino would become a celebrity-like figure in the religious community. A statue of Our Lady of Atocha holding the Holy Child in her arms was created for a church in Plateros, Mexico. The Santo Nino would often be removed to bring healing and help to women giving birth and spread miracles to the sick and poor.
Fast forward over 400 years, long after the Spanish colonists arrived in New Mexico. A man by the name of Severiano Medina made a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Santo Niño de Atocha in Mexico and brought back the statue of the Santo Nino to his home in Chimayo.
32 years after its theft, a statue of the Holy Child Jesus (Santo Niño) returned on September 22, 2020 to its place in the Santo Niño Church in Malitbog, in the Philippines in the diocese of Maasin.
Francis Ong, a Catholic antiques collector, found the statue - sculpted by a local artist around 1720 in the image of the Santo Niño de Cebu - which had been stolen in 1988 on the island of Leyte, reports the agency Churches of 'Asia.
The Festival of Santo Nino de Cebu -- rooted in the deep faith of the Filipino people and originating in the Philippines' Cebu province -- finds special Masses, dances and processions taking place in which participants carry a statue of the infant Jesus marking the 16th-century arrival of Christianity in the Philippines.
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 a small king with royal regalia: crown, red cloak, scepter and orb, and cross.
The procession continued to a reception, which featured traditional Filipino food, as well as music and Filipino dances. Part of the reception included the dancing feast of \"Sinulog,\" a traditional three-step dance performed while holding the statues in reverence to the \"Senor Santo Nino.\"
Considered the oldest relic in the Philippines, the statue of the Santo Nino came to the country when Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer, gave the image to newly baptized Queen Juana of Cebu in 1521. The original statue remains on display for veneration and visitation in a separate side chapel.
In the early hours of Jan. 9, devotees began a 1.2-mile procession, known as a \"penitential walk,\" to the basilica in a downpour to open the festival in Cebu City. Traversing Osmena Boulevard, a major thoroughfare, followers used incense, recited prayers and sang traditional hymns as they followed the statue, which was encompassed in flowers and lights and encased in a reliquary.
Dancing performances tell the story of the arrival of Catholicism to the Philippines and the people's decision to accept Christianity. The dances feature bright, colorful costumes, hundreds of floats, long processions, complex dancing, music and storytelling, all while statues and images of the Santo Nino are carried or featured in some way.
Celebrated in festival and dance, the small statue of the kingly boy Jesus has become a symbol of the Christian faith opening its arms to embrace the disparate cultural and language groups that populate the Pearl of the Orient Seas and an expression of the bonds that connect the Christian people with their Muslim sisters and brothers.
Such stories notwithstanding, today the Sinulog is danced in churches as a symbol of religious linkage and heritage. Those privileged to carry a replica of the statue in procession often dress as a Muslim woman to illustrate the interreligious relationship between Christianity and Islam.
SUNRISE Just as Pope Francis had done earlier that day in the Philippines, AuxiliaryBishop Peter Baldacchino blessed hundreds of statues of the Santo Niño de Cebu herein South Florida Jan. 18, as the Filipino community gathered to celebrate theirtraditional feast day of the Holy Child.
AsFilipinos waved red and yellow napkins during the offertory, Bishop Baldacchinoasked for one of the yellow napkins and joined the congregation in waving thesymbol of the Santo Niño. The statue was dressed in those colors when explorerFerdinand Magellan brought it to Cebu in 1521. It is believed to have beengiven to the wife of the island chieftain after her baptism, which was the dawnof Christianity in the country.
Alarge statue of the Holy Child was enshrined at St. Bernard Church in December2013. Originally, Rose Battad, who began the devotion to Santo Niño in 1990 inSouth Florida, owned the statue. She gave it to Dr. George Lim, president ofthe Santo Niño Sinulog of South Florida.
Afterthe Mass here, Filipinos carried a giant statue of Santo Niño and another of theVirgin Mary in a procession from St. Bernard Church to the parish hall, where areception took place with costumed dancers performing native Filipino dancesand a historical skit about the origins of Santo Niño in the Philippines.
For several decades, These streets near Espiritu Santo Parish Church are the best places to buy cheap Catholic religious statues. There are about a dozen religious stores which sells different kinds of religious items.
I accompanied my friend few days ago who have a personal devotion to Santo Niño ( maybe a Santo Niño collector) and after a brief stop in a religious store. He was able to buy a small santo niño for a discount. Popular religious statues includes child jesus, virgin mary, holy family and black nazarene.
The cheapest religious statues which is made from fiber resin and maybe imported ones from China cost about Php 40 each about 4 to 6 inches. According to the vendor, They can give us Php 35 each if we will buy at least 6 different items.
I was also amazed that in some instances, religious dress may cost several thousands of pesos and may be worth more than the wooden statues, not to mention the aureole, crown, septer and accessories. They are normally handled down from one generation to another.
Religious statues made from cast fiber resin and plastics are the cheapest priced item . They are priced depending on the material, craftsmanship, details and size. The bigger the statues. The more expensive it becomes. Religious statues made from fiber resin and plastics are more preferred by the general public, since they are cheap , lightweight and easy to transport.
Batikuling wood or scientifically known as Litsea reticulata, Litsea perottetii or Litsea leytensis seems to be the most preferred wood material for religious statues. For religious ( santo) collector . They would prefer wood, which could last for generations.
There are also some re-sellers of these items . Some of the stores have customization services for those who do not like the ready-made religious statues. I think they ordered those statues from Pampanga or Laguna provinces. Old folks would recount that several decades ago, that there were good santo carvers ( santoreros) from Santa Cruz, Quiapo and even in Tondo districts.
There are some religious stores which used to sell religious statues with carved ivory head and hands. During our brief stop over, We have not seen santos with ivory heads and hands displayed at their stalls. Maybe some of them stopped or went into underground trading.
We were able to get some contacts and as i have posted, my friend bought some Santo Niño statues for a little discount and a couple of religious statues made from fiber resin. One will be donated to a local chapel somewhere in Caloocan.
A religious store was having a mid-year sale and we were quite lucky to have bought 1 religious statue. Overall, His total bills reached around Php 10,000 and took a side trip eating at a local eatery ( carinderia ) near SM San Lazaro.
In the ruins of that destruction a Spanish mariner named Juan Camus found the image of the Santo Niño that had been given to the people of Cebú by Magellan 44 years earlier, in a pine box, miraculously undamaged. The survival of the statue was seen as a miracle even by the surviving local people and ever since the statue was regarded as having miraculous powers. A church to house the Santo Niño was built on the spot where the image was found and is held to be the oldest parish in the Philippines. And the annual dancing feast of Sinulog is held every Jan. 16 in his honor.
Filipinos have maintained a long tradition of venerating the statue, and Pope Innocent XIII approved special liturgical texts for a special feast to honor the Child Jesus on the 3rd Sunday of January.
Santo Niño de Cebú, the miraculous statue of the Child Jesus and the devotion that helped make the Philippines grow into one of the largest Catholic populations in the world, is celebrating its 500th anniversary this year.
The 12-inch tall statue is made of dark wood and depicts the Child Jesus as a king dressed like Spanish royalty. It is clothed in rich fabrics, adorned with jewelry such as a gilded neck chain and other imperial regalia such as a golden crown, a cross-bearing orb, and various sceptres mostly donated by devotees.
The Basilica uses replicas of the statue when they need to display it to the public especially during parades in the Sinulog Festival. They say the Basilica does this so not to risk any damage to the almost-500 year old relic. Some people believe the original statue is actually hidden inside a private room in the Basilica where only a fortunate few can see it.
A remodeled Santo Niño chapel resembles Catholicism as imagined by Precious Moments, with big-eyed child angels and gaily painted wooden birds everywhere. The new look was the antithesis of the stark, mournful New Mexican-style bultos (wooden statues of the saints) and reredos (altar screens painted in muted colors) inside the Santuario. 59ce067264