Archival documents Filipino historians use are usually hard to read because of penmanship that differs by century. Sometim...

Archival documents Filipino historians use are usually hard to read because of penmanship that differs by century.
Sometimes a rare document turns up with a delightful hand-drawn image. like this 19th century document narrating the finding of the Santo Niño image in Cebu by one of Legazpi’s men in 1565.
It is believed that the image venerated in Cebu today is the exact same image that Magellan presented to Humabon’s wife in 1521.
This document is preserved in the archive of the ...