what is the history of sto. nino in the philippines?

Question

i prefer a long one.. again it's for my term paper.. & if u may, hope it's in tagalog.. but english will be okay.. tnx a lot..tnx tnx.. nid it badly

Answer 1

Ang imahe ng Sto. Niño ay iniregalo pa ni Magellan kay Hara Amihan, asawa ni Rajah Humabon, nang binyagan ang mga ito. Ngayon, ang imahe ng original na Sto. Niño ay nasa San Agustin Basilica pa sa Cebu City......http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/may2705/special2.htm

Answer 2

Funny that you should ask this question... There are really two santo niño's in Philippines. One is Santo Niño de Cebu, which is the oldest in Philippines, and Santo Niño di Praga (Baby Jesus of Prague). both are honored in Filippines.

Sorry but my Tagalog sux. I'm having enough trouble discriminating between puso, pusit, pusa, and puxx.

Since I was born in Prague, I could maybe give you more info including a pic on the second one

Peace.

Answer 3

Dinala ito ng mga kastila sa pilipinas

Answer 4

SANTO NIÑO
The Holy Child devotion in the Philippines

The Santo Niño mystique pervades the religious devotion of the Philippine Islands. Which is but fitting, for the history of the Santo Niño in this country begins with the "finding" of the Philippines by the Western World through the coming of Magellan who gave an image of the Niño to Queen Juana upon her "baptism."

The baptism may have been one of convenience, for how could the Cebuanos of those days be so readily Christianized a few days after the coming of the Spaniards? Or it could have been a matter of recognition of the God Child by a people whose name for the Supreme Being remains to this day Bathala. Bata-allah. Child God.

Whatever the reason, the statue of the God Child remained in the islands, revered, tradition has it, long after Magellan was slain and the foreigners driven away, only to come back later and discover the statue of the Niño in the smoldering ruins of a hut. This is the statue that is now known as the Santo Niño de Cebu.

In that year of its finding, 1565, by Legazpi and his men, the Cofradia, del Santo Niño de Jesus was born, tasked with propagating the devotion to the Niño throughout the islands.

Through the centuries, other "Niño" statues have found their way here, embraced in churches and enthroned in individual homes, not as a matter of decoration, but as a symbol of devotion for One who has been, according to legend, a giver of blessing and comfort, both spiritual and material.

It is with this background that Benjamin Farrales founded a group called Congregacion del Santisimo Nombre del Niño Jesus, a group of men and women banded together by their common love and devotion for the Santo Niño.

And it is this group and Ben Farrales, who writes that the Santo Niño is "Where my heart is," who have undertaken this beautiful coffee table book.

And indeed, the Niño takes center stage in this book replete with colored and full page pictures of the Niño and His various festivities throughout the islands.

He is here in His various appellations - of Cebu, of Prague, of Bad-asay, Santo Niño Durmendo, Santo Niño de Oro, Santo Niño Sagrado de Jesus, de la Paz, de la Esperanza, del Dolor, de las Flores, the Dancing Santo Niño, among the many, many Niños portrayed in this book.

It tells also, in words and pictures, of the various festivals honoring the Niño, including Cebu's Sinulog, Aklan's Ati-atihan, the Santo Niño festivals of Tacloban, Ibajay (Antique), Pakil (Laguna), Sabtang island (in Batanes), Alfonso (Batangas), Malabon (Metro Manila), Ternate (Cavite), Hagonoy (Bulacan), Pandacan and Tondo (Metro Manila). It also touches on the Santo Niño shrine in Davao.

Also included in the book are various saints devoted to the Child Jesus, myths and miracles, the Santo Niño in art, the various image makers of the Niño, pictures of the Niño owned by individual collectors. From Cebu are pictures of the Santo Niño collection of Dr. Lydia A. Alfonso, Msgr. Cris Garcia and Tonette Pañares who helped annotate the Cebu Niños, as well as gave a backgrounder on the devotion to the Santo Niño in Cebu.

Even the finding of the Santo Niño de Bad-asay in an Ayala Santo Niño exhibit is chronicled here. Naturally, there is a chapter on the Congregacion del Santisimo Nombre del Niño Jesus, which has a yearly exhibit of Santo Niño statues.

On the book's cover is the Santo Niño de Oliva from the Ben Farrales collection while the back cover shows the Santo Niño de Cebu. The book is, to date, the most comprehensive documentation of the Santo Niño devotion in the Philippines and is a must have for Santo Niño devotees (now, if only I could afford a copy! It's P2,000 for the soft cover edition and P2,500 for the hard cover one).



The City of Manila boasts of its rich cultural history every year in Pandacan with the traditional "Buling Buling" Dance Festival. Because many of the country's literary and musical geniuses of the 19th century came from Pandacan, an annual traditional dancing in the streets of Pandacan is featured every Saturday before the main celebrations for the feast of the Sto. Niño every 2nd week of January.