During the pillage, a soldier of Legazpi found a box containing the image of the Sto. Forty-four years later, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi arrived in Cebu destroyed the village of Rajah Tupas. We all know that Magellan met his death in the hands of Lapu-Lapu and the Spanish reign came to a halt. This event marked the foundation of the Sinulog dances where Queen Juana holds the Sto. The 800 natives were also baptized together with the rulers of the land. When Ferdinand de Magallanes (Magellan) arrived and planted the cross in the shores in Cebu in 1521 claiming it in the name of the King of Spain, he offered the image of the Child Jesus, the Santo Niño as a baptismal gift to Hara Amihan, wife of Cebu’s Rajah Humabon who was later named Queen Juana in honor of Carlos I mother, Juana.
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