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- Title:
- April 27
- Description:
- During Fr. Juan Medina’s time, today, April 27 was the fiesta of St. Vidal (San Vitalis). Now his feast is on April 28. Medina doesn’t write that lechon was served, but it may have been because today was the major fiesta for Cebu then. The Spanish flag was unfurled with the “greatest pomp possible.” The image of the Santo Niño at the Augustinian Convent “was carried in procession to the cathedral, after a piece of paper [had] been signed, by decree of justice, that it will be given back to the same religious.” There is a procession, mass, an Augustinian preaches, the image is returned. In the afternoon there is a bullfight “as extensive as their means allow — but that ... is slight.” After 50 years the city of Cebu, at the time named Santísimo Nombre de Dios, had “greatly declined.” There was a population loss with Spanish preferring to reside in Manila. The fiesta of the Sto. Niño de Cebu” moved to the second Sunday succeeding Epiphany. The Spanish flag was no longer carried after Spanish dominion ended.
- Subjects:
- Juan de Medina Sto. Niño de Cebu Fasts and feasts Cebu
- Exhibition:
- Juan Medina 50
- Source:
- Detail of “Carta particolare dell’Isole Filipine è di Luzon” by Robert Dudley, 1646. From “Mapping the Philippine Seas” exhibited by Philippine Map Collectors Society in 2017 at Metropolitan Museum of Manila.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "April 27", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll099.html