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Sinulog draws millions of revelers, devotees |
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By Eddie O. Barrita
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Saturday, 31 January 2009 |
CEBU CITY, Jan. 18 (PNA) – Millions of both local and foreign tourists and devotees have flocked over the weekend to this central Philippine city of Cebu, some 600 kilometers south of Manila, to join the Sinulog festival in honor of the centuries-old miraculous image of the Sr. Sto. Nino.
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan gave the image of the Sto. Nino as a baptismal gift to Hara Amihan, wife of reigning Rajah Humabon, when Magellan came to Cebu on April 7, 1521.
The same image was found unharmed among the burning embers of the city when conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi came to Cebu more than 40 years later on April 28, 1565 to start the formal Christianization and colonization of the Philippine islands.
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