Minor Basilica of the Holy Child of Cebu (Basilica Minore Del Sto. Niño de Cebu)
Colonial-era basilica built around a small carved Christ-child statue found unburned in a 1565 fire.
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This guide to the Minor Basilica of the Holy Child in Cebu City opens on April 28, 1565, when Spanish soldiers burned the town and a sailor named Juan de Camus found a small carved figure in the ashes, untouched by fire. It traces the statue back further, to a gift Ferdinand Magellan gave a local ruler decades earlier, and follows the chapel built on the spot through repeated fires and rebuildings. Listen for how the same story still plays out in the streets here every January.
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