Directed by Jerome Chavez Pobocan, Jojo A. Saguin, and Erick C. Salud, it is topbilled by Zaijian Jaranilla together with an ensemble cast.
[1][2][3][4] The first 65 episodes of the series were re-aired during its two reruns, with the first 48 episodes of the series from April 9 to 11, 2009 during the Holy Triduum of that year, and the second being the first 65 (coinciding with the anniversary number that ABS-CBN celebrated from 2018 to 2019, with a video about Jaranilla returning to the church where the series was set made in June 2019) from March 16 to May 4, 2020 due to the network's shut down on May 5, 2020 as a result of the expiration of its broadcast franchise granted in 1995 the day prior, temporarily replacing FPJ's Ang Probinsyano because of the community quarantines caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines which ABS-CBN temporarily suspended the tapings of their ongoing dramas.
[5] Found abounded as an infant in a cemetery, Santino is adopt by a group of priests in a small town, who all pitch in to raise him as a little boy.
Julia suffers due to her mom's recent memory losses, causing her whole career, life and lovelife to be ruined.
Her mother was later revealed to be the owner of the strip club of the town, "Heaven's Gate", but unluckily isn't excited to meet her daughter.
Her mother was later revealed to be the owner of the strip club of the town, "Heaven's Gate", but unluckily isn't excited to meet her daughter.
Boy George, her son, suffers to a lot of assault his mother gives because of his below-average IQ, which isn't enough for him to even enter a good college.
As Santino searches for his real mother, through the way of "lukso ng dugo" (a feeling), he meets a young woman named Abby, who helped him when he was lost.
Returning characters: Mario is forced to leave his family alone due to the gossips and the shame of the revealed fact that Stella is his daughter.
Meanwhile, at the middle of the night a big surprise has startled the monastery as Brother Chi's sister seeks for help after being forced to marry a man she doesn't love.
Selda forgives Mario and reconciles with her mom, while Alex' father tries to relocate his daughter's wedding in Bagong Pag-asa, despite opposition from the priests.
Meanwhile, Doña Anita is accused and imprisoned for murders that happened when her men were evicting people from her land; however, Enrique refuses to help her but instead seeks revenge for the past sins his mother-in-law did to him.
After learning that the person Jepoy is working with uses dynamite when fishing, Father Patrick stops him as he think this is way too dangerous for a child to handle.
In order to cure everybody in town, Enrique finally seeks the help of a doctor with expertise on infectious diseases, Dr. Marcelito Azarcon.
Lito told Santino that he doesn't believe in God, he thinks that its only one way to let other people feel calm during problem and science is always the one finding that solution.
Upon his wife's sudden comeback, Moy is in fact glad; but he just couldn't help but fear the thought that she might take their child away from him sooner or later.
Batang Iwahid is a group of young teenager boys based in the town of San Isidro who either rob people, kidnap them for ransom.
Upon learning this, Enrique hassles the authorities' search and rescue operation, in order to save their town's hailed child, and promote his political agenda as well.
Returning characters: Santino was the most affected by the stampede, where he had a near death experience in the hospital and where he met his mother in Heaven telling him that it is not his time yet because he still needs to find his father.
Surprisingly, Malena finds her way back home after she accidentally fell asleep in a delivery truck bound to Atong and Baby's store; she is very weak so she has to be sent immediately to the hospital.
Malena sneaks out of the hospital to purposely barge in Enrique's house; and there she shamelessly blames her husband and his newly adopted son, Santino, for all her mishaps.
On the other hand, the heat wave phenomenon in Bagong Pag-asa finally takes its toll on its residents; but despite the said fact, Enrique remains unmoved regarding the matter.
Incidentally, after obliviously walking around the streets of Manila to look for his big brother Cocoy, Santino finds himself spending sometime with Santa Claus.
Surprisingly, in contrast to her brother's display of disgust, Lea is somehow looking forward to see her biological father; so she makes it a plan to look for him before her time finally runs out.
In the midst of Santino and Jose's pursuit, Mia tries giving them a lift; and upon learning that they have no place to go, she gladly offers her house to be their temporary refuge.
Mia gets mad at her family, saying she has worked hard for them and yet they do not appreciate her for what she has been sacrificing for them; while she was driving a taxi, she was stabbed by robbers, and Santino healed her.
Upon learning about this said information, Franco instantly claims custody of the said kid; and in order to successfully do so, he tries seeking Mayor Enrique's help.
Enrique then decided to back out of the mayoral race in order to spend more time with his children, and gets ready to face corruption charges that may be filed against him after leaving office.
A journalist named Paulo Peñaflor arrives Bagong Pag-asa to search for a news feature regarding the miracles within the small town.
A journalist named Paulo Peñaflor arrives Bagong Pag-asa to search for a news feature regarding the miracles within the small town.