Santo Niño of Pandacan, a much venerated icon in the Philippines, a gift from Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan to the first Catholics of the archipelago, has been lost in fire that destroyed a Church. Miraculously the Blessed Sacrament was untouched.
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Centuries-old Santo Niño image lost in Pandacan church fire
NO TIME FOR TEARS An emotional Fr. Sanny de Claro, parish priest of the Sto. Niño de Pandacan Parish, tells the faithful who heard Mass outside …
