{"id":4143,"date":"2016-09-04T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2016-09-05T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T06:02:10","slug":"a-vibrant-display-of-religion-nagas-penafrancia-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2016\/09\/04\/a-vibrant-display-of-religion-nagas-penafrancia-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"A vibrant display of religion: Naga\u2019s Pe\u00f1afrancia Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christianity is evident in all corners of the Philippines. Festivals for saints are celebrated at least once a month, but festivals in honor of Mary always draw throngs of devotees to cities all over the country. One such festival is the Pe\u00f1afrancia Festival<\/strong>, held in Naga City every third Saturday of September.<\/span><\/p>\n

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COLORFUL, YET STILL ROOTED IN RELIGION. Children representing a school from Naga City with their presentation for the Voyadores Festival in Naga City. Image by John Bongat, grabbed from <\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Pe\u00f1afrancia Festival is a festival held in honor of Our Lady of Pe\u00f1afrancia, the Patroness of Bicol Region. Festivities usually start with the Traslacion<\/em> on the second Friday of September, which takes the image from the National Shrine of Our Lady of Pe\u00f1afrancia to the Naga Cathedral.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flocked by side events such as the Ms. Bicolandia Beauty Pageant, the highlight of the festival still lies with the Fluvial procession that takes places on the third Saturday of September.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Pe\u00f1afrancia Festival will be from September 9 \u2013 17, with side events like the search for Ms. Bicolandia, and the 2016 Naga Highland Triathlon taking place on September 7 and 25 respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the complete schedule for this year\u2019s Pe\u00f1afrancia Festival:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: <\/em>Naga City Guide<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Naga Smiles to the World<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>tourism.gov.ph<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>www.seasite.niu.edu<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>CBCP News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christianity is evident in all corners of the Philippines. Festivals for saints are celebrated at least once a month, but festivals in honor of Mary always draw throngs of devotees to cities all over the country. One such festival is the Pe\u00f1afrancia Festival, held in Naga City every third Saturday of September. \u00a0 COLORFUL, YET STILL ROOTED IN RELIGION. Children representing a school from Naga City with their presentation for the Voyadores Festival in Naga City. Image by John Bongat, grabbed from Facebook \u00a0 The Pe\u00f1afrancia Festival is a festival held in honor of Our Lady of Pe\u00f1afrancia, the Patroness of Bicol Region. Festivities usually start with the Traslacion on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicol","category-festival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}