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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 festival which is now held at the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center in San Juan, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006 with a performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra under the musical direction of Maestro Christoph Eschenbach. The Prades Festival established by Casals in France in 1950 was renamed the Pablo Casals Festival in 1982.
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 ...
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 ...
San Germán: Saint Germain: August 6 Comerío: Holy Christ of Health August 10 San Lorenzo: Saint Lawrence: August 15 Cayey: Our Lady of the Assumption: August 21 Adjuntas: Saint Joachim & Saint Anne: August 30 Rincón: Saint Rose of Lima: August 31 Juana Díaz: Saint Raymond Nonnatus: September 8 Aguas Buenas: Our Lady of Montserrat: September ...
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 ...