October 29, 2020
“The first monastery in the Philippine Islands,” a national shrine, and the "house" of Cebu's Sto. Nino, the Basilica Minore del Sto. Nino de Cebu has been conferred the title of Basilica Minore by the Pope Paul VI. Know more about this Augustinian-built structure on this Pagsubay vlog.
October 26, 2020
The Order of St. Augustine (OSA), the caretakers of the image of the Sto. Nino, looks back into its half-a-millennia presence in the Philippines, and celebrates and shares its contributions to the pastoral and integral societal development in the country.
September 1, 2020
Augustinian priest Fray Martin de Rada - one of the five Augustinian friars who accompanied the expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and Fray Andres de Urdaneta - was instrumental in the Christianization of Cebu, (and later in the Philippines) in 1565 and decades afterwards.
September 1, 2020
The Order of St. Augustine – originally known as the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustine – shed off their hermetic character and transformed themselves into evangelists of what was then called The New World (the Americas, Africa, and Asia) starting from the 16th century.
August 20, 2020
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) through its Board of Commissioners reaffirms previous official declarations that Limasawa Island is the location of the first Easter Mass in the Philippines.
June 1, 2020
The story of the Santo Niño de Cebu started with the 1521 baptism of Cebu chieftain Datu Humabon, Queen Juana and 800 of their subjects by the chaplain Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, Pedro de Valderrama; and the gifting of the image to Queen Juana by Ferdinand Magellan’s chronicler, Antonio Pigafetta.
June 1, 2020
The worldwide veneration to the image of the Sto. Niño in the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño and the celebration of the Fiesta Senor started way back to the miraculous finding of the image in by the company the Legazpi-Urdaneta expedition in April 28, 1565.
June 1, 2020
The April 1565 arrival of the Legaspi-Urdaneta expedition to the Philippines, and the subsequent finding of the image of the Santo Nino would not be possible without the Augustinian priest, Fray Andrés de Urdaneta, OSA. The expedition paved the way for Spain’s missionary and economic expansion, and the formal Christian evangelization of the Philippines.
June 1, 2020
The formal Christianization of the Philippines started in 1565. But the story would not be complete without going back 44 years prior - back to 1521, during the arrival of the famed Ferdinand Magellan* to a group of islands of what is now called the Philippines.