Viva Pit Señor!
  Unknown fact about Sto. Niño de Cebu.

The original 495 year old image of the child Jesus which was given to Reina Juana as a gift originally had a fair complexion. The image comes from the Flandërs(Modern day Belgium). There was a time when the image fell victim to the hands of a priest suffering from Melancholia, a kind of depression.

He painted the image black, and was probably alarmed to the game of black statues in the Philippines like the Nazareno de Quiapo, and N. S. dela Paz y Buen Viaje y Antipolo. After the World War II, a nun from St. Theresa's College wiped off the black paint on the image's visage, revealing it's original fair color. It was Professor Trosdal who transformed the image into the present. Brown color.