Basilica del Santo Niño Pipe Organ A post-graduate student in music visited the Basilica hoping to validate data obtained from sources that way back in the colonial times the Church of Santo Niño in Cebu served as a training center for organists from the different parishes administered by the Augustinian […]
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Upon those who lived in a land of gloom a light has shone. You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing They rejoice before you as a people rejoice at harvest as they exult when dividing the spoils. […]
The association between the Augustinians and the Santo Niño goes beyond the simple fact that the former are the official custodians of the miraculous image of the Child Jesus in Cebu City. This, in fact, has a long history behind it, which we will trace in this brief article. When […]
The Slab Stone that Shattered a Dream and fortified Faith “Diha gyud sa iyang ulo nabuak ang bato, unya deretso siya ug katumba ug sigeg agas iyang dugo,” (The slab of stone fall to pieces right on her head, then she fell down and started to bleed.) This is how […]
8 ways to have a meaningful pilgrimage at the Home of the Sto. Niño The Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño de Cebu is the mater et caput of all churches in the Philippines. It is on this church that the oldest and precious religious relic in the country is being […]
Probably one of the greatest legacies that Spain left to Filipinos is the Catholic faith which started in our very shores in 1521 when the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan baptized the royal family together with their eight hundred Cebuano subjects. It was also them that Magellan gave the Queen of […]
In 1935, the Lungsuranon magazine featured the Santo Niño on its front page as Ang Karaan ug Milagrosong Larawan sa Bantugang Santo sa Sugbu (The Ancient and Miraculous Image of the Famous Santo Niño of Cebu). Miracles wrought by the power of the Santo Niño are considered undeniable. Santo Niño […]
Post Lepgazpi Era: Medical Miracles: The Holy Infant has long been acknowledged as miraculous by devotees as well as by the Augustinian Order. One ancient miracle attributed to devotion in the Santo Niño involved the venerable Bishop Don Pedro de Agurto, first bishop of Cebu, who died on October 15, […]
