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Cebu's Fuente Osmeña is a fountain and a park located inside a rotunda along Jones Avenue and General Maxilom Avenue, Cebu City, Philippines.
It is a great place where people gather to relax, exercise or just chat with friends. In addition, it is also where some special events are being held, such as beauty pageants, social events, governmental functions, among others.
It is built in honor of the late President Sergio Osmeña, the fourth president of the Republic of the Philippines. It was inaugurated in 1912.
The Basílica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebú or Minor Basilica of the Holy Child of Cebú, commonly known as Santo Niño Basilica, is a basilica in Cebu City in the Philippines that was founded in 1565. It is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the country, allegedly built on the spot where the image of the Santo Niño de Cebú was found during the expedition of Miguel López de Legazpi.
This image of the Child Jesus is the same presented by Ferdinand Magellan to the chief consort of Rajah Humabon on the occasion of their royal Baptism to Roman Catholicism on April 14, 1521. The image was found by a soldier named Juan de Camuz forty years later, preserved in a wooden box, after Legazpi had razed a local village.
The present building was completed from 1739–1740, and was designated by the Holy See as the "Mother and Head of all Churches in the Philippines".
The devotees kept increasing over the years and could easily fill the Basilica. To accommodate this growing number of devotees who come to hear mass in the Basilica, a pilgrim center was built within the church compound opposite of the Basilica and Holy Mass is celebrated on Fridays and other Religious Festivities are held here in the open-air, theater-like structure.
Magellan's Cross Pavilion is a stone kiosk situated on Plaza Sugbo beside the Basilica del Santo Niño It houses a Christian cross that was planted by explorers of the Spanish expedition of the first circumnavigation of the world, led by Ferdinand Magellan, upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521. The Magellan's Cross Pavilion which houses the tindalo cross was built sometime in the 1800s.
The original cross was encased inside another wooden cross made of tindalo wood in 1835. This is to protect the original cross from people who chipped away parts of the cross who believe that the cross possesses miraculous powers. Some people, however, believe that the original cross has already been destroyed.
On the ceiling of the pavilion's interior, is a mural depicting the baptism of Rajah Humabon and his household and the planting of a wooden cross by Ferdinand Magellan.
Along with the Basilica del Santo Niño's church and convent buildings, the pavilion is a declared National Cultural Treasure of the Philippines.
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