Sto. Niño de Tondo History

The Santo Niño de Tondo is a Catholic title of the Child Jesus associated with a religious image of the Christ Child. The image was brought to the Philippines during the expedition of Andres de Urdaneta and Miguel Lopez de Legaspi in 1564, and is the second-oldest image of the Child Jesus in the Philippines after the Santo Niño de Cebu. 

And in the year 1572 the first feast of Sto. Nino de Tondo was inaugurated. According to Histographers, the feast can be compared to the Mardi-gras festival. but others say that the first feast of the Sto. Niño de Tondo can be compared to the Ati-Atihan Festival. The people of Tondo first did the practice of putting charcoal on their skins for the feast of Sto. Niño. Later, this celebration disappeared. 

But when the Parish Priest Fr. Erick Santos was appointed, he gave color to the festival again and called it the Lakbayaw Festival in 2002. The Lakbayawa Festival is about traveling, dancing and praying to the Child Jesus. It is still celebrated to this day.

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