Local officials headed by Mayor Ding Valeda (inset) and pilgrims often dressed in traditional costumes and thousands of devotees from different regions join the famous 3-day feast celebration of Obando Fertility Rites which celebrated annually in May in Obando, Bulacan where couples and others participate in the dance roots in Anitist traditions, a form of pre-colonial Filipino belief performed in the streets seeking blessings for fertility on Saturday (May 17).
According to Maria Teresa Bondoc, archivist and museum curator of the Shrine of Nuestra SeΓ±ora dela Inmaculada Concepcion de Salambao, Obando town has three patron namely San Pascual Baylon, Sta Clara de Assisi and Nuestra SeΓ±ora dela Inmaculada Concepcion de Salambao. Photo by ERICK SILVERIO
