Talk:Santo Niño

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[edit] Needs Work

This article needs some serious work, it is incomplete and blatantly baised. I am changing a couple of words to help correct the bias somewhat. Maybe one day I will come back here are actually fix this article.

Again, was it "burnt badly" or "relatively unscathed" after the Spanish razed the village? my own library research seems to indicate that the latter is commonly held as the truth and would be in line with the folk belief of the idol being "miraculous".

I'm changing this so this article makes sense

[edit] Santo

Santo means holy as well as saint. In this case it is holy (child) not 'Saint' child.--Jondel 02:52, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

While this image has been popular in the Phillipines recently, perhaps its immediate predecessor was a similar image also called Santo Nino extant in the 1400s in parts of Spain still occupied by Muslims. During that era, Christian pilgrims still travelled to the Holy Land and were often harassed on their arduous journey. During the night a Christ Child was rumored to have walked among them dressed in fine clothes such as those worn by the Santo Nino of Cebu but also carrying in his left hand a staff with a gourd full of water hanging from it and in his right hand he bore a basket of bread. These he would share with the famished pilgrims then disappear, perhaps appearing again later the same night to another group of pilgrims. The image resided at a nearby church where the Santo Nino's apparel was cared for by parish women. Each day the ladies would make sure his clothes were all clean and especially his shoes were cleaned and polished. Often the next day the parish caretakers would arrive in the morning to find that the Santo Nino's shoes were covered in soil as if he had been walking the roads at night bearing water and bread to the holy pilgrims. Local clergy began to hear of these events and came to witness the Santo Nino whose shoes became so inexplicably soiled during the night. They pronounced a visible miracle and the image and idea of the Santo Nino spread round the world.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.139.5.91 (talk • contribs)