Holy Week in the Philippines: 13-03-2008
Visitors to the Philippines will find the country has plenty of cultural activities as well as a warm climate, but the most important cultural events takes place during March.
Holy Week is a chance for Filipinos to portray every miracle, action and person featured in Christ's final seven days.
From the Passion to the Death and the Resurrection, the locals relive all the major events of the story through reconstructions of the stations of the cross.
Travellers will find the event extremely important in the life of the Filipino people but also very informative.
Plays and processions tell the story of Christ's Passion and they began as a pilgrimage honouring the journey taken by Jesus.
Most of the processions are solemn and have little noise until it reaches midnight on Holy Saturday when the people are called to celebrate the Resurrection.
People head to the church and go straight to mass before the morning brings feasts and celebrations that last all day.