BellaRocca Moriones Festival Tour
This lenten season, feel the magic in a breathtaking new destination and experience a moving festival that depicts the passion of Christ.
Surrender to your whims and spend it at the luxurious BellaRocca Island Resort and Spa, an exclusive resort perched on a 20-hectare island of mountainous rolling terrain, reminiscent of Santorini, Greece. Located in Marinduque, it is the perfect place to stay in as you prepare to witness and experience the Moriones Festival.
Known as one of the most colorful and solemn festivals
in the country, the celebration transforms Boac, the
capital town of Marinduque into a mini Jerusalem. Men are roaming the streets dressed in creatively designed costumes of biblical Roman soldiers searching for
Longinus. Legend has it that Longinus, a Roman
centurion who is blind in one eye, pierced the side of Jesus on the cross with his spear and restored his sight by the blood that spurted out from Christ’s wound. The Moriones Festival is a commemoration of Longinus and the miracle that converted him to Christianity.
Don’t miss the spectacle and join the festivities!
Otherwise, you have to wait for another year!
Inclusions:
• Roundtrip domestic airfare from Manila-Marinduque-Manila
• Roundtrip land and sea transfers (Marinduque Airport – Resort – Marinduque Airport)
• Welcome refreshments at the Resort
• Hotel deluxe accommodations with breathtaking seascape and mountain view.
• Daily A la carte breakfast
• Tour of the Marinduque Mainland and its Environs, particularly for the Moriones Festivities
• English Speaking Guide
For more info about Bella Roca Island Resort and Spa, please visit www.bellaroccaresorts.com
Event Highlights:
Good Friday, 22 April 2011
“Sinakulo” - A street play about the passion of Christ. Morions, the participants of the festival in Roman
costumes, take part in this play.
“Via Crucis” - Also known as the Way of the Cross, it is a re-enactment of the passion and suffering of Christ while He was making His way to Calvary. This re-enactment is done along the streets of Boac and culminates at the Moriones Arena.
Tawak Drinking - A ritual of drinking an herbal potion against poisonous bites.
Flagellantes - At the Boac and Gasan cemeteries, men inflict
suffering on themselves by whipping their backs as a form of
atonement for their sins.
Good Friday Religious Procession in all town centers.
“Kristo: Ang Tagapagligtas” - A stage presentation about Christ,
the Redeemer, at the People’s Park.
Black Saturday, 23 April 2011
“Pugutan” - A stage presentation about Longinus and about how he caught the ire of the centurions because of his conversion to Christianity. The re-enactment reaches its climax when Longinus is caught and beheaded.
“Sinakulo” - Another stage presentation about the story of Longinus and about the
Resurrection of Christ. This is done with the morion groups and cenaculistas.
Mistah Morion Group Torch Parade and Vigil.
Easter Sunday, 24 April 2011
“Salubong at Bati” / “Aleluyahan” - A ritual celebrating the appearance of the Risen Christ before the Blessed Mother through dancing.
Easter Mass in all Parishes.
“Gasang-Gasang Easter Sunday Street Dancing Festival” - An annual
competition of various contingents in choreographed movements and morion-inspired costumes.
Grand Parade and Awarding of Prizes to Morions
Parade of MISTAH Morion Group, Boac Poblacion
“Traditional Pugutan” - A ritual showing a mock beheading of Longinus.
“Pugutan” – A mock chase along the streets showing how Longinus was discovered, caught and beheaded.
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