Fr. Jonas Mejares (4th from left), Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu rector, leads the ribbon-cutting ceremony to formally open the Sto. Niño photo exhibit at SM Seaside, with (from left) Mario Abellana King (Hermano Mayor 2016), Haydee Esperanza King (Hermana Mayor 2016), Alphonsus Tesoro (president, Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines), Adelina Suemith (Executive Director, National Commission for Culture and Arts), Rev. Fr. Eusebio Berdon, OSA, Percielyn Irizari and John Delan Robillos. (CONTRIBUTED)
With the devotion and renewal of faith, the 450th Kaplag photo exhibit was launched at SM Seaside City Cebu last April 24 at the Mountain Wing atrium.
Living to its theme Sto. Niño: “Hope of the People,” the photo exhibit is in line with the 450th anniversary of the finding (kaplag) of the image of Sto. Niño de Cebu and the Augustinian presence in the Philippines.
The exhibit showed different photos of the Holy Child as his image is being fêted in different places all over the Philippines.
Some images were taken during the Sinulog festival and at holy masses conducted during the days leading to the feast of the Señor Sto. Nino.
The National Commission for the Culture and the Arts together with the Cebu City government and SM Seaside City Cebu believe that remembering the tradition of faith and giving value to the core of Christianity is an act of saving grace.