[2][6] On May 3, 2018, on the feast day of the finding of the El Santo Cristo Milagroso, the church was declared as an archdiocesan shrine by Archbishop Marlo Mendoza Peralta of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.

[2] The announcement also coincided with the opening of the church’s “Jubilee Door” and exactly three years since the parish was declared as Archdiocesan Shrine of Santo Cristo Milagroso.

[2] The church was supposed to be formally elevated into a minor basilica on September 10, 2021, feast day of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.

Local accounts tell that in 1620, both the images of Santo Cristo Milagroso and Virgen Milagrosa were found in a floating crate at the boundary of the present-day barangays of Dadalaquiten Norte in Sinait, and Paguetpet in Badoc.

The devotion to the Santo Cristo Milagroso draws multitude of pilgrims to the church of Sinait especially every Friday, earning the municipality the moniker "Quiapo of the North".