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| The most awaited event of every Cebuano and every other Filipino out there. Get ready for some serious partying for one entire day. Dance to the rhythm of Sinulog and feel its addicting beat. | |
| Sinulog Backgrounder |
| Sinulog is a dance ritual in honor of the miraculous image of the Santo Niño. The dance moves two steps forward and one step backward to the sound of the drums. This resembles the current (Sulog) of what was then known as Cebu's Pahina River. Thus, in Cebuano, they say it's Sinulog. |
| Sinulog Stories |
| Parade and Festival The highlight of the yearly Sinulog celebration, which is the grand parade, is the climax of a series of cultural happenings within the week ending on the feast of the Señor Santo Niño, the third Sunday of January. |
| Remembering How It Begun As the cliché goes “how time flies.” I can still remember Mr. Dodong Aquino, executive director of the Sinulog Foundation Inc., at our tiny office at City Hall dictating a four-page proposal on how to run the Sinulog in full scale after it was turned over by then MYSD Director, David S. Odilao, Jr. to then Mayor Florentino S. Solon of the City of Cebu. It was 1981 and now Sinulog has fully bloomed into a celebration that has gained national and international prominence. |
| SAN AGUSTIN From a 1565 nipa chapel, the image of Señor del Santo Niño was given a permanent shrine which would later be the oldest church in the country. The church in the ensuing years underwent a history of being destroyed by fires and rebuilt following the fate of the country. |
| THE SINULOG PARADE Nowhere else in the Philippines can one witness a yearly historical pageantry in parade as part of a religious observance except in Cebu City. It is a city-wide display of shows moving along the decorated streets participated in all sectors who take their individual roles with gusto the way they want to express their celebration of the feast of Señor del Santo Niño. |
| Sinulog Stories |
| Divine Señor The Señor Santo Señor, the country’s oldest Christian icon, was destined from the very start to last as much as the community of its pious patronage, Cebu. The worship of the Señor, after over 400 years since the image was first given to Cebu’s Queen Juana, has prevailed in the life of Cebu up to this century and its origin is known to all true-blue Cebuanos. |
| Cebu’s Pride: Sinulog Project As it is now an integral part of the socio-cultural celebration feast of the Santo Niño (Holy Child), so the Sinulog Project enhanced the traditional feast. For centuries since 1565, the yearly highlight of the feast has been the solemn procession on the eve. It is this expression of worship that the Sinulog Project in its first year derived inspiration. The Cebu City government expended the celebration into a big cultural event. |
Cebu’s Divine LITTLE KING |
DRAWN
By a Person We are here because of a person. Unlike other festivals, we are not here for a blooming flower that eventually withers, nor for a fresh fruit that eventually spoils, not even for a unique animal that possesses special qualities but which eventually dies. We are here for the Santo Niño. |
“Sinulog“
For the Santo Niño All over people to express joy, petition, penance and thanksgiving has performed the world, in the course of human history, the dance. |
Looking Back and Onwards Tartanillas, the horse-driven carriages used as transportation, lorded over Cebu City major lanes and thoroughfares in the mid-50’s. As a child of seven, I remember the days when my parents would travel to Cebu City from Tagbilaran City in Bohol by boat via the Sweet Lines shipping company. |
| Santo Niño: True God and True Man It has been observed that some Christians are still not aware that the Hloy Image of the Santo Niño represents the true God. They consider Him a mere saint in the same level and category of the other saints. No wonder most towns and barrios celebrate their fiestas with Santo Niño as their “patron saint”. The word “saint” referred to the Santo Niño is basically wrong, a mismomer, because Santo Niño is God and not just a saint. |
Sinulog.ph ™ is the official Sinulog Festival Web Site.
SINULOG FOUNDATION, INC., Cebu City Sports Complex
Osmeña Blvd. Cebu City, Philippines, 6000, Tel. No.: (6332)253-3700
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