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Enrique Villanueva celebrates the feast of the Santo Niño, the Child Jesus, with traditional dances, Sinulog and a procession, according to a 2012 Philippine Star report. The report described a three-day celebration from January 14 to 16, 2012 and gave the feast day as the third Sunday every year.

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In 2012 the first day was a novena and the second day Holy Mass and Sinulog dance presentations, in which the dancers followed a traditional ritual with painted faces and bodies and a martial beat. On the third day a procession went from the chapel to the sea; there a bathing took place in a solemn atmosphere, and back at the chapel the image was bathed with coconut water.

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The report quotes an association president who recalled a family account: a fisherman fished out a small piece of wood shaped like the Santo Niño and threw it back into the sea, and this happened three times before he brought it to the chapel. The report gives it as a family story and cites no other source.

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