Over the past few years, Iloilo Dinagyang Festival’s fame has spread all throughout. For most tourists, and even locals, it’s all about those adrenaline-rushed street dance performances, outrageous costumes, and the painted warriors that either scare children or entertain them with all the moves. It
It is the first time in a decade that we would not be covering Dinagyang Festival in my hometown, Iloilo. Felt that we lost a part of 2015 since it has been one of our “personal annual pilgrimages” every January. The annual feast, which gathers
Pope Francis is coming over to the Philippines from 15-19 January, 2015. Millions of Filipino Catholics, faithful and visitors, are expected to grace Manila for the activities like the Holy Mass at Luneta; meeting at the MOA Arena, University of Santo Tomas, and Manila Cathedral;
It took an hour and a half for the Andas to pass the entire span of the museum and moved closer towards Quiapo. It only took out a kilometre out of its 7 kilometer journey back to the Basilica. We were already expecting that it’ll
Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva!!! Indayo!!! Indayo!!! Indayo!!! It was the battle cry of the devotees in the Traslacion. As the Black Nazarene inches towards the front of National Museum, you can feel the aura of people pouring their efforts towards the small carriage carrying the
One word: Surreal. This describes best the Procession of the Black Nazarene, or Traslación de Nazareno (literally “The transfer of the Black Nazarene”), one of the Philippines’ most anticipated and well-known festivities of devotion and folk Catholicism. Thousands (millions as the authorities claimed) of faithful
The Traslacion de Nazareno, or the traditional foot procession of the image of the Black Nazarene, is one of the largest religious processions in the Philippines. Every year, the faithful pull the carriage carrying the miraculous image of the Black Nazarene to the Quiapo Basilica-a