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The Wattah Wattah Festival, also known as the Basaan Festival (lit. ' dousing of water '), is the feast of John the Baptist, the patron saint of San Juan, Metro Manila, and many other communities across the Philippines. It is held every June 24. [1]
The religious festival of San Juan, on June 24, begins the night of the vigil (June 23), with music, songs, dances and games around a large bonfire. An essential element of the festival is fire, an extremely important element for the Guarani culture related to wisdom.
Dancers at the San Sebastián Festival in San Juan, in 2013. Before the establishment of the modern festival, a small annual procession dedicated to the Saint Sebastian used to take place along San Sebastián Street (Calle San Sebastián) following a mass dedicated to the martyr as established by Juan Manuel Madrazo, parishioner of San José Church during the 1950s, [4] with the purpose to ...
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Festival of San Juan; Saint Jonas Day; Jaaniõhtu; Festa Junina; See also Saint John's Eve; August 29, an Eastern Orthodox feast commemorating his beheading; September 23 an Eastern Orthodox feast celebrating his conception; a Roman Catholic and Lutheran feast celebrating his conception; Thout 2, a Coptic Orthodox feast
Primarily, the festival is celebrated in honor of the town's patron, San Ildefonso but it also gives honor to the "kapok" plant, also known as "bulak" which played a very important part in the town's history. BULAK is actually San Ildefonso's old name when it was still just a barrio under the neighboring town of San Rafael. Feast of San ...
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Día de San Juan Bautista. Fiestas de San Juan. Since John the Baptist is the patron saint of the Island and the namesake of the capital city , his day is widely celebrated by big parties on the beaches on the Eve of St. John's Day (June 23). One tradition is to walk backward into the ocean and fall in 12 times at midnight on the beginning of ...