{"id":3871,"date":"2017-01-01T17:46:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T09:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2021-07-09T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T01:35:46","slug":"expats-guide-to-three-kings-day-celebration-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2017\/01\/01\/expats-guide-to-three-kings-day-celebration-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Expats\u2019 Guide to Three Kings day celebration in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">It\u2019s nearly 2017, Christmas day is over; so what now? For many Catholics, the holiday season doesn\u2019t officially end until the 12th day of Christmas known as the \u201cFeast of the Epiphany\u201d or \u201cThree Kings\u2019 Day\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3872\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/three-kings.jpg\" alt=\"three-kings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/three-kings.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/three-kings-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/three-kings-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/men-dressed-in-costumes-as-the-three-kings-meet-and-greet-news-photo\/460720711\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Feast of the Three Kings, also called \u201cFeast of the Epiphany\u201d, is observed among the Filipino Catholic community every 6th of January. It is a time of feasting, visiting, and gift-giving. This festivity is being celebrated in different ways across the globe; in the Philippines, homilies in Masses would be dedicated to the celebration of the Three Kings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">There is also the tradition of three men dressed as the Three Kings, each wearing royal robes and riding a horse instead of camel, parading around the streets of several towns in the Philippines. Along the way, they will distribute gifts to children who line the streets. Mass follows, after which parents, children, siblings, relatives, grandchildren, god-parents and friends exchange gifts. The celebration typically lasts for the whole day. This practice usually happens in provinces like Bulacan, Laguna and also in Manila.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Though the Philippines is known to be the country that celebrates the longest Christmas season, the feast of Three Kings signifies its end before the start of school days for students after a long Christmas vacation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philippines.abouttravelingtheworld.com\/festival-in-the-philippines\/feast-of-the-three-kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abouttravelingtheworld<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com:8080\/news-feature\/378300\/christmas-season-ends-feast-3-kings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">philstar.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicsandcultures.org\/philippines\/christmas-epiphany\/feast-three-kings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catholicsandcultures<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Feast of the Three Kings, also called \u201cFeast of the Epiphany\u201d, is observed among the Filipino Catholic community every 6th of January. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/9407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}