The tale of two city hospitals

It has become a practice that every time I go home to Cebu, my first agenda is to go directly to the Basilica Del Santo Niño to light a candle before the image of the Holy Child. I call it faith in ritual practice.

I buy candles from traditional Sinulog dancers. These are the ladies who sell candles within the vicinity of the Basilica who, holding candles, do the Sinulog dance while chanting the prayer intentions of believers.