Santo Niño de Arévalo
| Santo Niño de Arévalo | |
|---|---|
Original image of Santo Niño de Arévalo | |
| Location | Arevalo, Iloilo City, Philippines |
| Date | 1581 |
| Witness | Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa |
| Type | Wooden statue |
| Approval | Abp. Jose Romeo Lazo |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Shrine | Archdiocesan Shrine of Santo Niño de Arevalo |
| Patronage | Arevalo, Iloilo City |
| Attributes | crown, sceptre, globus cruciger, dark skin, maroon mantle, gold boots, sash |
| Feast day | Third Sunday in January |
The Santo Niño de Arévalo is a Filipino Roman Catholic title of the Holy Child, associated with a Christ Child image in the island of Panay in the Philippines. This is the third oldest image of the Holy Child in the Philippines, after the Santo Niño de Cebú and Santo Niño de Tondo. It was brought by Spanish Governor General Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa in 1581 to the town of La Villa Rica de Arévalo, now known as district of Arevalo in Iloilo City.
The district of Arevalo celebrates its fiesta in honor of the Santo Niño de Arevalo every third Sunday of January – a week before the staging of Iloilo City's Dinagyang Festival that celebrates the coming of the replica of Santo Niño de Cebu to Iloilo in 1968.
On January 16, 2022, the Santo Niño de Arevalo was crowned by Jaro Archbishop Jose Romeo Lazo.