Mayor Matt Erwin Florido said General Luna decided to give attention this year to its century-old Centurion Festival with a parade participated in by local folk of all ages to ensure that the Holy Week tradition lives on. | dtmallarijrINQ /PDI
Local folk, who joined the parade, imitated Roman soldiers wearing the masks and body armor of “centurions,” a unit of Roman foot soldiers associated with the time when Jesus Christ was alive.
“Until now, Marinduque [province] and General Luna have been engaged in a friendly claim on who originally started this Holy Week festival,” Florido said.Marinduque’s famous Moriones Festival, believed to have started in 1807 and held on Good Friday, involves male penitents in costumes who parade around Mogpog town of the island-province, which adjoins Quezon.
On Good Friday night, townsfolk and their visitors watched as the municipality staged its first “senakulo,” or the dramatization of the Passion of Christ. The event was held in collaboration with the artists from Quezon’s Sariaya town who have long been staging the traditional senakulo during Holy Week.On Good Friday, more than 500 of the town’s residents also participated in the parade of flagellants, another long-held tradition of their town like the “centurions,” the mayor said.
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