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Good Friday processions in Baliuag or Holy Week procession in Baliuag, Bulacan is an event taking place in Holy Week, in a traditional Roman Catholic culture of the St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag. In the Philippines, Good Friday [nb 1] [1] while others contend that it is a corruption of "God Friday".
The Baliwag Lenten Procession on Good Friday is one of the longest Lenten procession in the Philippines. [14] The procession around the town is joined by the parishioners along with floats ( carozas or carriages) of life-size dioramas depicting scenes during the time of Jesus. [ 15 ]
The Baliwag Good Friday procession is the longest Lenten procession in the Philippines. [16] Baliwag currently has 118 statues and scenes portraying the life of Christ. [17] This activity is well-attended by both local and foreign tourists, and follows the main liturgical service of the day. Mass is not celebrated on this day.
Before the 1521-1898 Spanish colonization of the Philippines, Makinabang was already a settlement or sitio and the largest in Baliuag. When the Spanish friars, particularly the Augustinians, founded Saint Augustine Church in 1733, a Spanish mestizo introduced a wood sugarcane press to the area.
Flagellants and Lenten Rites: Paombong (Good Friday) Lenten Procession: Baliwag (Good Friday) Barong at Saya Festival: Pandi (April 17) Halamang Dilaw Festival: Marilao (April 21 – May 8) Kneeling Carabao Festival: Pulilan (May 14–15) Obando Fertility Dance: Obando (May 17–19) Buntal Festival: Baliwag (Month of May)
Eat Bulaga! Lenten Drama Specials is an annual anthology special by the Philippine noontime show Eat Bulaga! in observance with the Holy Week. The episodes usually release during the Holy Monday to Holy Wednesday. The series runs from 1981 to 2008 but later returned in 2014, the series goes in hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to 2023 ...
Suroy sa Surigao [30] Feb 1 to Feb 28 [30] ... procession of flagellants and devotees in biblical attire ... Baliuag Lenten Procession [59] Apr 6 [59] Baliuag, ...
Baliwag, officially the City of Baliwag (Tagalog: [bɐˈliʊag]; Filipino: Lungsod ng Baliwag, Kapampangan: Lakanbalen ning Baliwag/Siudad ning Baliwag, also spelled as Baliuag), is a component city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 168,470 people.