Cebu’s Tindera Sinulog: The other festival queens
By AMER R. AMOR
AT the height of the Sinulog Festival's street dancing competition in Cebu City on Jan. 15, young women, dubbed as “Festival Queens,” carried the Santo Nino and led thousands of dancers and spectators as the city celebrated the feast of the Holy Child Jesus. Far from the madding crowd, just outside the Basilica del Sto. Nino, another group of women sans make-up and colorful costumes danced as well as they offered prayers of gratitude, repentance and supplication to the Holy Child Jesus
