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Santo Nino Devotion: Historical Notes By Jose G. Espinosa Jr., M.A. January 26, 2006 SUNSTAR |
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THE failure of the Magellan expedition aroused Spain's national pride and popular interest. It was followed by a succession of four expeditions but, like the first one, they were all unsuccessful.
When Philip II ascended the throne in 1556, he made up his mind to accomplish what his father, Charles I of Spain or Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, had envisioned and cherished. Also, the Viceroy of Mexico, Don Luis de Velasco, suggested to him to send an expedition to the Isles of the West, particularly to the archipelago named after him. A search was made for a man who could fulfill his ambition. Through the Viceroy's recommendation, Augustinian Andres de Urdaneta, a sailor-turned-friar, was chosen by His Majesty, the man W.B. Watson described as "the pivot upon which everything in the early history of the Philippines turned." Sent to the Viceroy of Mexico were Royal letters ordering the organization of a fleet for the Philippines. Andres de Urdaneta was appointed leader of the expedition; Legazpi was to be a military governor of the new colonies. Four Augustinian priests, namely, Martin de Rada, Diego de Herrera, Agustin de Aguirre and Pedro de Gamboa, went with Fr. Andres de Urdaneta. As instructed, Legazpi was not to forget the purpose of the voyage: to bring the natives of those regions to a knowledge of the Catholic Faith, to find a return route to New Spain and to obtain spices and other riches of those lands for purposes of trade. Nor were the religious spared from the specific order of their superiors: "the conversion of the people." On November 21, 1564, this memorable expedition, consisting of four galleons- San Pedro, San Pablo, San Juan and San Lucas and forming a total of five hundred men-sailed out of La Navidad, Mexico for the Philippines, arriving finally in Cebu on April 27, 1565 after a long and difficult voyage. When the natives of Cebu first saw the Spanish galleons, they thought these carried retribution for Magellan's death. Thus, they made themselves ready against the impending invaders. All of Legazpi's efforts to assure them of his peaceful intention were to no avail. Exasperated, he ordered the ship's artillery to fire. No sooner had the natives heard the Spanish cannons, they fled to the mountains, leaving behind them their flaming villages- whether razed by the natives themselves or caused by the artillery nobody knows - and more than 100 houses were consumed by the conflagration before the wind changed its direction and spared the rest of the houses. Because it was getting dark, Legazpi assigned soldiers to guard and see what would be found in the remaining houses. There was nothing of value but only pots and similar utensils with some leftover rice. However, Juan Camus, a Basque soldier and native of Bermejo, Vizcaya, entered one of the most humble huts and there he found two chests. In one he found a plate and a bone; the other, being so light, he did not bother to search. Deeper in the hut he found a third chest bound with a hemp rope like those from Castille. He cut the rope and found inside another box of pine wood a small wooden statue of the Child Jesus, like those made in Flanders, Belgium. The statuette had a loose velvet shirt, a gilded neck chain made of tin, and a little red cap of Flemish wool. It was practically unscathed and had its right hand raised with two fingers in a gesture of blessing, and in its left it held a gilded globe on which the cross was missing. After marking the house with a bamboo cross, Camus ran with his treasure and brought it to Legazpi and the priests. Upon seeing the statue, Legazpi fell on his knees, took it in his arms, kissed it and said: "Lord, Thou art powerful to punish the offenses committed in these islands against Thy Majesty and to establish here your house and Holy Church where your most glorious name will be praised and glorified. I beg you to enlighten and guide me so that everything we do here will be for your glory and honor and for the increase of our Catholic Faith." After Legazpi had stepped ashore, one of his first acts, as requested by Fr. Andres de Urdaneta, was to reserve the grounds where the statuette had been found, as well as the surrounding areas, as the future site of a monastery and church. Fr. Diego de Herrera, who had taken the place of Fr. Urdaneta, asked the Adelantado to make that donation effective and documented. The wooden image of the Holy Child was reputed to be the same one given to Rajah Humabon's wife upon her conversions to the Christian faith. The image was taken to a provisional chapel and Fr. Urdaneta offered a thanksgiving mass for the jubilant success of the expedition. Fr. Urdaneta, in his Relacion, wrote that the image was like those in Flanders, Belgium during the 16th century. He believed it had been left in the Archipelago by Magellan, a belief that all his contemporaries shared. The Italian chronicler Pigafetta related the event thus: "After dinner, the Chaplain, Fr. Valderrama and many of us went back ashore to baptize the native queen. When we arrived, she was already sitting on a cushion and many women of her court were sitting on mats around her. While the priest was getting ready for the ceremony, I showed her an image of our Lord, a small statue of the Child Jesus and a cross. Upon seeing them, she was moved with contrition and, with tears in her eyes, she asked to be baptized. She was administered the sacrament of baptism, together with all the women of her court, and given the name of Juana, in memory of the Emperor's mother; the wife of the Prince was named Catalina; the queen of Limasawa, Isabel; and so was done with the rest of the women. The queen asked for the statue of the Holy Child to take the place of her idols, and I gave it to her." After a temporary church had been built, the statuette was brought in a procession from the hut to its new home, and was placed in the main altar to where all people came to pay homage. There was also a unanimous decision to commemorate yearly, on April 28, the finding of the image. Finally a confraternity was organized, with the majority of the expeditionary corps becoming members; it followed the statutes of the same confraternity of the Holy Name existing in the Church of San Agustin in Mexico, one of whose members was Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The Monastery carried the title of the Holy Name of Jesus and the City of Cebu was given the name City of the Holy Name of Jesus. After the procession, two native chiefs, accompanied by thirty of their men, came to the Spanish Camp; after the mass, they were asked about the origin of the statue, but they could only answer that it belonged to a certain slave. Legazpi conducted a thorough investigation of the finding of the statuette so that there would be an official document about the origin of the feast. Probably, after forty years, the natives had forgotten the origin of the statue. However, Fr. Urdaneta himself, in his account to the King, says: "the natives must have kept the statue since the time they had killed some of Magellan's soldiers here," even though he had never read the account of Pigafetta. A church was built in honor of the Image of the Holy Child and dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus. It was the first church in the country and most probably was made of nipa and bamboo. The Spaniards started referring to both the statue and the Church as Santo Nino (Holy Child). The church fell prey to fire and later on was replaced by another one more solid made of timber and which was also burned down on May 8, 1628. Abiding by the instructions of the King, Fr. Urdaneta set to return to Mexico. On June 1, 1565, before leaving, he first convened his religious to elect his successor and Fr. Herrera was unanimously elected. On that same day, preparations were made for the return of the ship, San Pedro, to Mexico. A list was drawn up, so that those who would return could be selected. For this return voyage, Fr. Urdaneta, accompanied by Fr. Aguirre, was placed in charge of the navigation, while Legazpi's grandson, Felipe de Salcedo, was given command of the vessel, with Rodrigo Espinosa and Esteban Rodriguez as pilots. The voyage was a great success. Fr. Urdaneta charted the new route that was maintained by the Manila galleon during the entire colonial period. Thus, the commuting line between Manila and Acapulco was permanently established. With the departure of Fr. Urdaneta and Fr. Aguirre, and with the untimely death of Fr. Gamboa in 1567, the two remaining priests, Fr. de Rada and Fr. Herrera, tried their best to propagate the faith and made quite a number of conversions. In 1567 Fr. Herrera baptized the first converts in Cebu, the whole of Tupas' clan. On the other hand, between 1566 and 1567 Fr. de Rada was found preaching in Panay and Halauod, where a number of natives were converted when Legazpi had proceeded to Panay. These two Augustinians displayed their audacity of spirit in penetrating the heart of the Visayan Islands "alone, without guides, without arms, without provisions." Impressed by their heroic deeds, the French historian, J. Mallats, once wrote: "those two priests conquered the Visayan Islands! Something unbelievable for anyone ignorant of the Christian missions." To continue earnestly the work of evangelization, Legazpi requested the King to send more priests to the Philippines. Two more Augustinians answered the call and arrived in Oton in 1569. They were Fr. Juan de Alva (then 70 years old) and the youthful Fr. Alonso Jimenez. As superior, Fr. Herrera assigned Fr. Jimenez to Masbate and later transferred him to Camarines in Bicol where he learned the Bicol dialect and wrote a catechism in that dialect. Fr. Alva was assigned to Dumangas. The old priest arrived there accompanied by Juan de la Haya. In the middle of July 1569, Fr. Herrera himself was sent by Legazpi to Mexico to inform the Viceroy and the Audiencia regarding the state of affairs in the Islands. On June 23, the following year, he came back with two new priests, Fr. Diego de Ordonez and Fr. Diego de Espinar. The explorations of Martin de Goiti and Juan de Salcedo of Cavite and Manila, respectively, in 1570 brought to Legazpi first-hand information on the conditions and natural resources of the places. On April 20, 1571, the Adelantado embarked for Luzon. On May 19 he reached Manila and took procession of it. On June 24, he officially proclaimed it as a city and organized its government with its own officials. He also marked out the site where the Church and Monastery of San Agustin should be built. This was to become the seat of the Augustinian government of the Province all throughout the colonial period until the present. On June 15, 1571, more Augustinians arrived and they were immediately distributed to the expanding missions in the Islands. They were Fr. Alonso Alvarado (former chaplain in the Villalobos expedition in 1542), Fr. Agustin de Albuquerque (Apostle of Taal), and Fr. Francisco de Ortega (later became Bishop of Nueva Caceres) who were assigned to Cebu to accompany Fr. de Rada; Fr. Juan de Orta to Camarines to accompany Fr. Jimenez and Fr. Francisco Merino to Panay (Iloilo) to help Fr. Alva in Dumangas. As early as 1571, the Augustinians could count five houses in their care: Cebu, Oton, Mindoro, Manila and Tondo. In the Provincial Chapter of May 3, 1572, Fr. Martin de Rada, who succeeded Fr. Herrera as superior, was elected (the first) Provincial. There were already twelve Augustinians at this time. The new Provincial again sent Fr. Herrera, the fittest man for the task, to Spain for the following purposes: to inform the King of the conditions and progress in the Islands as requested by Legazpi; to report their religious affairs before the King regarding the development of Christianity, recruitment of more missionaries; and, principally, to ask permission to enter China. Fr. Herrera sailed in one of the ships Santiago and San Juan, which lifted anchor on August 13, 1572 from Manila. He arrived in Spain in 1574 and had an audience with King Philip II, who listened attentively to his proposals. Convinced by all the reasons he presented, the King replied by Royal cedulas done on the 7th of November 1574, among them: 2. an order to the Augustinian religious to correct the abuses and bad habits of the Spaniards; 3. to build monasteries in the islands; 4. for the royal officials to participate in the limosna of wine, oil, and wax; 5. to construct hospitals for the Spaniards and the natives; and 6. the permission for the Augustinians to go to China (although no words yet came from the King, Fr. de Rada and Fr. Marin entered China as ambassadors in June 1575.) To make up for these losses, new contingents of Augustinians, Franciscans (in 1578), Jesuits and Dominicans (1581), and Recollects (1606) arrived in a total and concerted efforts to spread Christianity in these Islands. They worked in open and cordial cooperation with one other. During the next few decades of the 16th century, specifically in 1594, the Augustinians had 107 religious, distributed in forty-two houses and working in seven Provinces: Cebu, Bantayan Island, Panay, Pampanga, Ilocos, Pangasinan and Batangas. In fact, throughout the whole colonial period, they established the widest extent of parochial ministries in the Philippines. In the official list of parishes and missions established as of 1898, the Augustinians were found to have administered 75 parishes in the Archdiocese of Manila, 17 in the Diocese of Cebu, 68 in the diocese of Jaro, and 44 in the Diocese of Vigan, including three mission-parishes and 21 missions. In sum, there were 346 ministries established in the Islands as compared with the Dominicans' 109, the Jesuits' 42, the Franciscans' 175, the Benedictines' 6, the Recollects' 223, and the secular clergy's 158. In fact, 118 of the 346 ministries of the Augustinians were voluntarily ceded to either the religious or secular clergy. The Revolutionaries had also confiscated all the Order's parishes and gave them to the diocesan priests. In that revolution of 1898, in which the secularization controversy was transformed from a religious into a political issue, the Filipino revolutionists would have almost completely expelled all the religious Orders from the Philippines had it not been for the immediate actions and intervention of the Holy See, which forestalled what could have been a bloodier, grimmer and more disastrous controversy. The devotion to the Santo Nino seems to have somehow declined with the transfer of the government and of the motherhouse of the Augustinians to Manila. The building of the Church and Monastery was started about 1730. The Santo Nino was finally enthroned on January 16, 1640. During World War II, the convent and the Church suffered heavily from American bombardment in 1944. One bomb shook the walls so violently that the good Fathers, fearing for the image, ran to its rescue but to their amazement, they found the Holy Child unscathed and hanging on its cape on one of the electric candles decorating the niche. Fr. Moran, O.S.A. carried it out of the rubble, amid fast-burning houses, to the Redemptorist Church, where it remained until some necessary repairs were done in the Sanctuary to which it was returned on April 20, 1945. In 1965, the Church and the Monastery were both renovated for the festivities of the Fourth Centennial of the Christianization of the Philippines, which centered on the Santo Nino. The title of Basilica was given to the Sanctuary because of its historical and religious significance and national prominence. His Holiness Pope Paul VI sent his Papal Legate to preside over the festivities. The image of the Santo Nino was canonically crowned in the name of the Pope by the Legate at the height of the celebration participated in by a huge crowd from all over the country and Augustinian visitors from abroad. The closing ceremonies of the Centennial were held at Manila, and for the first time since its finding, the Santo Nino left the City of Cebu to preside over the festivities attended by an immense multitude of devotees led by the President of the Philippines. The image now rests in the Church of Santo Nino, the Basilica Minore of Cebu, revered and venerated by Cebuanos and other Filipinos. The Basilica has, in all those centuries of Catholicism in the Philippines, been under the care of the Augustinian priests, and from its name was derived the name of the Province itself: Provincia del Santo Nombre de Jesus and subsequently Provincia del Santo Nino de Cebu. In 1976, the Holy Image was placed in a separate chapel outside the Sanctuary proper in order to give the devotees a better opportunity for private worship without interfering with the liturgical services at the Basilica. Every Friday, this historical and devotional site is crowded with the faithful coming to pray the novena and receive the sacraments. The City of Iloilo celebrates the Feast of Senor Santo Nino in a rather unusual manner. To the eyes of tourists it might look like a pagan frenzy, but to the minds and hearts of true devotees, it is a tribute of loyalty, a homage of sovereignty, and a pledge of fidelity to Christ who, born as a child, was given the Name of Jesus and whose power rules the universe. The three attributes of Christ (Childhood, Holy Name and Kingship) have a special significance to Filipinos because the birth of our nation as a political and cultural unit stems from the finding of a statue of the Holy Child in Cebu by a soldier belonging to Legazpi's expedition. The Spanish conquistador solemnly proclaimed the Christ-Child King and Captain General of the Islands and named the newly established settlement City of the Holy Name of Jesus. The liturgy of the religious celebration is centered on the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. Before the liturgical reform, this was celebrated on the Sunday between New Year and Epifany (January 6), but in the Philippines it is traditionally held on the third Sunday of the same month. Some parishes, however, celebrate it on the fourth Sunday of January in order to make the parish priests available for the festivities in other parishes. The celebration in Iloilo has been transferred to the fourth Sunday of January in order not to compete with the festival of Kalibo traditionally held on the third Sunday of January. The festivities for the feast of Santo Nino have taken different forms as the different towns tried to adapt it to their cultural milieu. In Cebu, people who claim to have received favors from Santo Nino pledge to dance before his statue either during the annual procession or at the entrance of the Santo Nino shrine. Some devotees, who feel ashamed to perform the rite, pay a certain amount to "professional" dancers to fulfill the vow on their behalf. From time immemorial, the people of Kalibo pay tribute to Senor Santo Nino by dancing in the streets for a whole week, ending with the afternoon procession. They borrowed the custom from the Aetas, the original settlers in that part of the island, hence the Ati-atihan Festival of Kalibo. As it was usual in most parishes in the olden times, the rural and mountain folk came to the poblacion to join in the festivities, and so did the Aetas. Having no better way to spend the time during the festival days, they performed their traditional dances for the entertainment of the general public, as their contribution to the general rejoicing in exchange for the hospitality and food being offered to them by the townspeople. Later, the visitors and the general public joined in the dancing and sooted themselves to appear more like the brown Aetas. Thus, the Ati-atihan was born in Kalibo as a tribute to Senor Santo Nino. Tondo and Pandakan in Manila and Leyte, and many other towns and cities have traditionally celebrated festivals in honor of Santo Nino in their own way. Most of the towns and parishes celebrating the feast of Senor Santo Nino were at one time or another under the administration and the spiritual care of the Augustinians who brought along this devotion with them. The Augustinians in the Philippines have always been identified with Senor Santo Nino because they were with Legazpi at the time of the finding of the statue and Legazpi entrusted it to their care. In 1967, when Rev. Fr. Gregorio Liquete, O.S.A. was rector of the Basilica, a replica of the original image of Senor Santo Nino was brought to San Jose Parish in Iloilo City. The image was accompanied by devotees from Cebu, members of the Cofradia and Reverend Fr. Sulpicio Enderes, O.S.A., who at that time was the spiritual director of the Cofradia in Cebu. The people of Iloilo were enthusiastic about the arrival of the image in San Jose Parish. Delegates of the different organizations spearheaded by the parish priest Reverend Fr. Ambrosio J. Galindez, O.S.A. gave the image a very warm reception at the Mandurriao Airport. A few months after the arrival of the image, Fr. Ambrosio J. Galindez, O.S.A. introduced the novena prayers now traditionally said every Friday and on the feast of Senor Santo Nino. The Cofradia del Santo Nino was soon afterwards organized to foster the devotion to Senor Santo Nino and to hold activities in His honor. In January 1969, the Ati-Atihan contest was added to the cultural aspect of the celebration, preceded by a fluvial procession from the Parola to the Quirino-Lopez Bridge. A Mardi Gras with folkloric exhibitions was later included in the program. The people of the city, as well as guests, join in spontaneous dancing and merrymaking after the procession until the closing of the festivity late in the evening. Among the popular devotions of the country, none is more significant to the Filipinos than the devotion to Santo Nino. This is a devotion with a national spirit, not based on pious traditions and miraculous accounts, but authenticated by history and projected into the birth and socio-political development of the nation. This is a truly Filipino devotion. The Augustinian Friars had been coming to the Philippines in batches or groups called missions. From 1565 to 1898 there were 124 Augustinian Missions. And approximately 2,205 Augustinian missionaries including lay brothers arrived to dedicate themselves to the christianization of the Islands and also to the education of the natives. Some of them became Bishops of Cebu or Provincia de Santo Nino de Cebu: Fr. Pedro de Arce took possession on July 5, 1613 Fr. Juan Velez took possession on August 12, 1653 Fr. Juan Lopez took possession on August 31, 1665 Fr. Diego Aguilar took possession on July 12, 1688 Fr. Miguel Dayot took possession on September 15, 1696 Fr. Pedro Saenz de la Vega (who never left Mexico). Fr. Sebastian Foronda took possession on June 19, 1718 Fr. Manuel Antonio de Osio y Campo took possession on April 26, 1733 Fr. Protasio Cabezas took possession on December 7, 1741 Fr. Miguel Lino de Ezpeleta took possession on October 11, 1756 Fr. Joaquin Rubio de Arevalo took possession on Sept. 4, 1775 Fr. Ignacio de Salamanca took possession on Sept. 28, 1789 Fr. Joaquin de Encabo de la Virgen de Sopetran Fr. Francisco Genov,s took possession on Oct. 20, 1825 Fr. Santos Gomez Maranon took possession on February 10, 1829 Fr. Jaime Gil de Orduna took possession on March 31, 1842 Fr. Romualdo Jimeno took possession on February 27, 1847. Other Augustinians who became bishops of the dioceses of Nueva Caceres and Nueva Segovia, and archbishops of the Archdiocese of Manila were: Fr. Pedro de Arce, Bishop of Nueva Caceres, 1609-1613 Fr. Diego de Guevarra, Bishop of Nueva Caceres, 1616-1621 Fr. Miguel Garcia Serrano, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, 1617-1619; Bishop of Maila, 1619-1629 Fr. Hernando Guerrero, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, 1628-1635; then he became Archbishop of Manila Fr. Hilarion Diez, Archbishop of Manila, 1826-1829 Fr. Manuel Grijalbo, Bishop of Nueva Caceres, 1848-1860 Fr. Vicente Barreyro, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, 1849-1856 Fr. Juan Aragones, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, 1865-1872 Fr. Casimiro Herrero, Bishop of Nueva Caceres, 1880-1886 Fr. Arsenio Campo, Bishop of Nueva Caceres, 1888-1889 1. Inauguration of the Augustinian Province of Santo Nino de Cebu, Philippines; January 1984. Over Four Hundred Years of the Augustinian Province in the Philippines, by Ramon Pedrosa Jr., O.S.A., USA Archives. 2. Senor Santo Nino (A Historical Sketch), USA Archives: Augustiniana 3. The Philippines (A Capsule History), by Fr. Horacio de la Costa, S.J. Home Life Special; USA Archives 4. How Christianity Come to the Philippines, USA Archives: Augustiniana 5. The Epic Story of the Christianization of the Philippines. The Encounter, by Jose V. Braganza, SVD. Philippines Free Press, May 1, 1965. USA Archives 6. The Augustinians in Panay, by R. Morales Maza, University of San Agustin, Iloilo City, 1987. 7. Catalogo Bio-Bibliografico de los Religiosos Agustinos de la Provincia del Santissimo Nombre de Jesus desde su Fundacion hasta Nuestros Dias, by Fr. Elviro Jorde Perez, O.S.A., Manila 1901. 8. Diccionario Geografico, Estadistico-Historico de las Islas Filipinas, by Manuel Buzeta, O.S.A., Madrid 1850, p.545. 9. The Church in the Philippines, by Fr. Evergisto Bazaco, O.P., Ph.D., UST Cooperative, 1953. |
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Devotion to the Infant Jesus of Prague The fascinating story briefly told, plus the famous "miraculous" prayers and devotions along with the Litany to the Infant Jesus Infant Jesus in St. Anthony's Arms - Prayer Card Durable and everlasting laminated holy prayer card that contains a color image of Infant Jesus in St. Anthony's Arms on the front, and a prayer on the back. Card measures 2 1/2 inch by 4 1/2 inch. Back of card reads: Prayer to the Infant Jesus in St. Anthony's Arms &mdash O Jesus, my Savior! Who did miraculously appear to St. Anthony in the form of an infant, I implore You, through the love You did bear to this Saint when he dwelt on earth, and which You now bear to him in heaven, graciously hear my prayer and assist me in my necessities. Who livest and reigns the world without end. Amen. Made in Italy! NOVENA DE LAS NUEVE HORAS Al Niño Jesus de Praga (Infant of Prague) – Spanish Prayer Card Durable and everlasting laminated holy prayer card that contains full color image of the Infant of Prague on the front, and prayer written in Spanish on the back. Card measures 2 1/2 inch by 4 1/2 inch. Back of prayer card reads: NOVENA DE LAS NUEVE HORAS Al Niño Jesus de Praga (Infant of Prague) &mdash (Esta novena debe decirse a la misma hora, por nueve dias consecutivos) Oh Jesus mio que has dicho "Pedid y recibireis, buscad y hallareis, llamad y se os abrira," per la intercesion de Maria vuestra, Santisma Madre, yo llamo, yo busco, you pido que mi peticion sea concedida. (Aqui se hace la peticion) Oh Jesus mio que has dicho, "Todo lo que pidieras al Padre en mi nombre, es lo cencedera", por la intercesion de Maria, vuestra Santisima Madre, humilde y urgentement pido al Padre en vuestro nombre que mi peticion sea concedida. (Aqui se repite la peticion.) Oh Jesus mio que has dicho, "Los cielos y la tierra pasarian pero mi palabra no pasara", por la intercesion de Maria, vuestra Santisima Madre, me siento confiado de que mi peticion sera concedida. (Aqui se repite de nuevo la peticion.) Made in Italy! Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague Prayercard (Pack of 100) Oh holy night, the stars are brightly shining. a beautiful Christmas tree design. Jesus Infant Bodysuit Babies love creepin', crawlin' and sleepin' in our super comfy, 100% cotton jersey knit Infant Creeper. Infant clothes shouldn't be hard to change, so our three-snap bottom helps ease those nasty diaper changes. Great baby stuff for your special little o Oh holy night tree Jesus Infant T-Shirt by CafePress Oh holy night, the stars are brightly shining. a beautiful Christmas tree design. Jesus Infant T-Shirt Keep wee ones cozy and cute in this super-soft infant tee. Made for comfort and convenience, it's durable enough for life on the carpet and in the crib.6.1oz 100% combed ringspun cotton. Interlock knit for extra durability. Tagle Oh holy night tree Jesus Long Sleeve Infant T-Shirt by CafePress Oh holy night, the stars are brightly shining. a beautiful Christmas tree design. Jesus Long Sleeve Infant T-Shirt Tee, TShirt, Shirt With long sleeves for extra warmth on cool nights, keep your precious bundle cozy in this super-soft baby t-shirt. It's more than rugged enough for crawlers on the move.6.1oz 100% combed ringspun cotton. Long-sleeve design. Interlock |
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