A selection of century-old Virgins carved with massive, bell-shaped bodies typical of those made in the province of Bohol, Philippines. Most...

By Nick Joaquin Philippine Quarterly, Vol. II No. 1—October-December 1961. p. 1-2. (Nick Joaquin was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in 1954...

Bataan ’s most well-known and most revered Marian image is a dark-skinned, carved-in-the-round figure of a Madonna and Child , that follows ...

I can’t believe this 13 in. ivory San Juan found in Tiendesitas was passed up several times by many antique collectors. It had sat for too...

Santos from the San Agustin Church , the mother church of the Augustinians who arrived in the Philippines in 1565. Built in the heart of In...

At the Chapel of San Beda is housed the image of Our Lady of Montserrat , one of the are representations of the Virgin seated on a throne ...

An antique dealer in Padre Faura sent me this cellphone photo of two ivory-faced santos for my consideration. I was drawn, of course, to t...