Devotees flock to get flowers from Sto. Entierro

• Source: https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-news/bottom-article-list/2018/04/01/1801786/devotees-flock-get-flowers-sto-entierro
• Monday, April 2, 2018

By Ermida Q. Moradas (/MBG, The Freeman)

CEBU, Philippines — Almost 400 years had passed and yet people still flock as they try to get a piece of the flowers on the carroza of the Sto. Entierro on Good Friday during the Holy Week celebration in Bantayan Island.

The Sto. Entierro is the statue of the dead Christ after he was crucified.

According to Eufemia Chiong, 72, the image of Sto. Entierro was brought by their great-grandmother, Victorina Maderazo, from Barcelona, Spain.

Their family kept the image it as it is since the day it was brought in Bantayan.

"Wala gyud na namo gi-repaint or gipa-reconstruct. Mao gyud na siya og unsa siya pagdala diri sa Bantayan almost four hundred years ago," she said.

The Sto. Entierro is venerated by many Bantayanons and they believe that the Holy Image is miraculous.

It has been part of the lives of Bantayanons to get a piece of the white flowers made of bond paper below the bed where the dead Jesus was laid believing that it brings luck.