MANILA - The town of Lucban, the land of pancit habhab and colorful kiping-decorated houses, has revived the iconic Pahiyas Festival this 2022, two years since the pandemic forced most festivals in the Philippines to go virtual. Every May 15, the agricultural towns of Quezon province celebrate the feast of San Isidro Labrador, the patron saint for good harvest, in various ways the Agawan Festival in Sariaya, the Mayahon of Tayabas, and the Pahiyas or officially the San Isidro Pahiyas Festival. Pahiyas is dubbed as one of the country's most colorful festivals and begins with an offering to the farmer saint, a practice derived from the early residents' ritual of setting aside a portion of their harvests to the anito" or ancestor spirits. Before the feast, locals in the designated streets where the procession of San Isidro will pass through decorate their houses with rice stalks, a waterfall of fruits and vegetables, and most notably, giant flowers and chandelier-like "
Rev. Fr. Dario Cabral, parish priest of the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of San Isidro Labrador in Pulilan, Bulacan has called on the faithful to follow the example of San Isidro (Saint Isidore) as the Roman Catholic Church marks the feast day of the revered patron saint of farmers on Sunday, May 15.
FOR nine long days from May 15 up to May 23, 2022, expect the colorful and progressive City of Biňan to pull out all the stops to make the “12th Puto Latik Festival 2022” the best of them all and highlight the city’s best talents, its human resource, in terms…
And the best way to do it is through the “12th Puto Latik Festival 2022” that has captured the imagination of people all over, both domestic and foreign tourists, as the city highlights two of its most important contributions to Philippine cultural heritage: its world-renowned Puto Biñan and the Maglalatik…
A statue of St. Josemaria Escriva was one of many statues installed in the recently-completed Garden of Saints of the Mirador Jesuit Villa in Baguio City.