Gingoog festival celebrates the coconut
The coconut, or lubi, lives up to its name as “the tree of life,” as dramatically demonstrated in the lubi-lubi festivals held in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental,
The coconut, or lubi, lives up to its name as “the tree of life,” as dramatically demonstrated in the lubi-lubi festivals held in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental,
Sunday is the grand fiesta of Nuestra Señora de Guia, patroness of Ermita, thus commemorating the finding of the image on May 19, 1571, by a Spanish soldier when Adelantado Miguel de Legazpi landed in Manila.
When the feast of Sta. Rita de Cascia comes every May 22, expect fashion designer Oskar Peralta to be there at San Agustin Church, attending to the carroza of the saint, decorating it with red roses for the procession after the 5:30 p.m. Mass. Oskar has been doing this for the past 40 years, since his client Providad Herrera told him about the devotion to Sta. Rita de Cascia in 1972. Oskar didn’t know the devotion would change his life.
I was one of many devotees looking up to Sta. Rita de Cascia as her icon sat on top of the carroza decorated with red roses on the left aside
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