Preparations:
The “Taong Putik Festival” in celebration of giving praise
and honor to their Patron Saint John the Baptist (Apo San
Juan) is annually being done every June 23 to 24 of the
year.
Like every other festival, people in
Barangay Bibiclat, Aliaga do a lot of preparations before
doing rituals for the ceremony before celebrating the
festival.
Nine days before the celebration, all of
them start preparing. They were making novenas every
afternoon before the celebration of the festival. More
often, the preparations were being leaded mostly by women in
the community.
Anyone that has the capability to perform
the rituals such as begging for collections that will be
given to their Patron Saint will be a part of the festival.
Everyone who will perform the rituals should go to the
nearby river to coat themselves with mud and wore a banana
leaves all over his/her body. Then, they can perform begging
to the streets and ask money to different people. And the
money to be collected will be use to buy candles to offer to
their Patron Saint. And that is a symbol of giving honor to
their Patron Saint John the Baptist.
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