The Miraculous Oil Shedding Santo Niño de la Providencia of Las Piñas

Santo Niño de la Providencia of Las Piñas

In the quiet suburbs of Las Piñas City where commerce thrives in the city ones filled with Pineapples, sometime in 1992, an unexpected miraculous event took place that changed the once quiet city of Las Piñas  from a commercial center and suburbia into a place of pilgrimage for decades.

The image of Santo Niño de la Providencia is reported to shed healing oil for decades up to the present and many reported healings from several incurable diseases that continues to baffle many doctors and experts and later flock his chapel in the Gonzales Residence in A. Pijuan St, BF Resort Homes in Las Piñas City.

The Image

The image of the Santo Niño de Providencia is fashioned in a typical Santo Niño images that are found in every household in the country - a cute smiling face of the Child Jesus standing on a towering base, wearing cuffed long sleeves, donning metal plated boots and wearing a cape and sports a crown on its head and holds a scepter and a globus cruciger.

A Providential purchase

Sometime in 1988, Mrs. Baby Gonzales bought an image of the Santo Niño in a religious shop in Tayuman for her daughter Mrs, Lorna Gozales for family veneration. When her younger brother, Boy Gonzales met a fatal accident coming from his duty as a medical intern, the family placed the image in their sala to be able to pray unceasingly day and night.

The shedding Miraculous Oil

Then then the unexpected event took place on that fateful Monday of It was  Monday, January 27, 1992, at about 10:30 A.M   Lorna saw the whole living room flooded with a very sweet smelling and sticky liquid. out of fear of what she saw, she sat in a sofa  to gain her composure.

She then thought she was hallucinating or getting crazy then when she looked around their living room, she saw the holy image shedding liquid profusely from His tantalizing eyes.  She immediately scoop the liquid flowing down from his cheeks and applied the oil to his brother's body over and over again.  And with the Holy Oil, her brother started to recover gradually.

Days later, nuns and priest of different congregations came to pay homage to the prodigious image. As the news of the miracle spread nationwide through word of mouth and national media, pilgrims begin to flock the Gonzales household and numerous pilgrims s started to pour in everyday.

The developments

A Chapel was later constructed where the image is placed for public veneration up to this day and as witnessed by the author of this blogpost, there were a continues throng of pilgrims who would kneel in the chapel to ask graces to the Child Jesus of Providence. During his visit to the Gonzales Residence, Msgr. Josefino Ramirez gave the image the title "Miraculous Infant Jesus de la Providencia” and blessed the Holy Family Chapel on June 16, 1992.

When the image was inspected by the local church authorities, it is found that there were no holes or any mechanisms that is concealed in the image. The face was constantly restored due to oil that oozes from its eyes that the encarna fades immediately. One of the restorers of the image discloses that even the image was being restored, the oil continued to flow and the material that was used for the image is the same as those found in commercial stalls and venerated in all Catholic homes in the country. As of present, the Bishop of the Diocese of Parañaque is still silent on the miracles of the Santo Niño dela Providencia yet allowed pilgrimages to the Chapel of the Santo Niño.

Sto. Niño de la Providencia on his andas
for his feast day

Miracles and its strong devotion

The Prodigious Holy Child's  Feast day is celebrated every January 27, the anniversary of the first shedding of oil from the image and the thousands of devotees flock the small chapel to show thanksgiving and fulfill their vows to celebrate his feast day annually. On the day of the Fiesta, the image is enthroned to a special altar that was constructed for this special day and the image will be later transferred to its home parish, Mary, Mother of the Church Parish in BF Resort Homes in Las Piñas where the fiesta Mass is held constantly and after the Mass and veneration of the image, the image will borne again in procession back to the Holy Family Chapel.

Up to this day, Several miracles were reported through the intercession of the Sto. Niño dela Providencia, most especially numerous healings from common sickness from up to the complicated incurable ones that normally takes years to recover, or otherwise that baffled many doctors and specialist. The cures varied from healings from cancer cures, mobility of immovable body parts, improvement of eyesight and other senses among others continue to inundate the box of answered petitions over the years. Pilgrimages continues up to this day and miracles multiply by the numbers as years passed by.

Who would have ever thought that this simple image of the Child Jesus will be used by God to be an instrument of channeling his graces to his people over the years. The story behind this miraculous image will make us realize that the Divine Providence is at work for the good of our souls and he cares for all of us, in this case, the sick is the primary focus of his attention.for he knows the their painful plight and he wanted to alleviate their suffering by using a humble image of his Son in a form of a Child to comfort them and cure them not only of their ailments, but also give them hope for eternal life that all of us long for.