According to the Tigbauan folks who lived during the eighteenth century, a great miracle occurred during their time.
The fishermen in Barroc, while spreading their net, saw afar a coming tidal wave as high as the church bell tower, rushing towards the direction of the shore of the town. The people dashed in panic to the higher part of the town they called takas. While running for their life took chance to look back at the approaching giant wave and saw an unbelievable sight. A little boy, about five to six years old, was balancing himself on top of the tidal wave, skipping back and forth as if playing, while the tidal wave gradually receded until it was reduced to the level of an ordinary ocean wave. Thus, the whole town was saved, and they attributed their salvation to the little boy they saw, whom they believed to be the Holy Child Jesus.
Based on the Church calendar,the feast of the Sto. Niño falls on the second Sunday after Epiphany. So, every feast day of Sto. Niño, they celebrated a thanksgiving mass to commemorate their salvation from that horrible tidal wave. They permanently installed a sculptured image of the Sto. Niño on a pedestal at the altar of the church. Their thanksgiving celebration became their devotion, until it was no longer held as a mass to thank then Holy Child Jesus, but as a grand festival because the devotees grew and grew in great number as the years went by.
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