Jan 11 2010
Sto. Niño returns after the war
The image of the Sto. Niño de Cebu is returned to the then San Agustin Church, now the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño, after being safely kept at the Redemptorist convent during the aerial bombings of World War II. Photo above shows a Redemptorist priest and an Augustinian friar with the image.
(Photo sourced from MacArthur Memorial Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, USA and posted in Skyscrapercity Forums)
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January 15th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
I recognize the bespectacled Agustinian as the most respected Fr. Leandro Moran. A very strict and firm confessor who celebrated dawn Sunday masses that I used to attend with my mother at San Agustin church.
So he was the one who received the Sto. Nino on its return. He is also credited by the Balaanong Bahandi book as the last Agustinian who completed the restoration of Boljoon church.
January 17th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Indeed Billy. Pit Senyor!