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Volume III, No. 015
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SANTACRUZAN 2015:
Tangub City’s SobreMesa Summer Fair By Joe Palabao, Editor at Large
A grandiose, colorful, beautiful and one of a kind Religious Tourism Festival in Northern Mindanao and the whole of Mindanao as well was the 1st ever Tangub City SANTACRUZAN 2015 held last May 29 at the main thoroughfares of the city and ended at the Sinanduloy Cultural Center with a joyous celebration honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross. SANTACRUZAN 2015 is a religious tourism festival culminating the long and joyous SOBREMESA SUMMER FAIR of Tangub City.
The 1st ever Tangub City’s SANTACRUZAN 2015 featured the beautiful Hon. Governor Hermina M. Ramiro as Reina Emperatriz with escort Actor Aljur Abrenica and Vice Governor Aurora Virginia M. Almonte as Reina Elena and Jasper Clion Pacate as Constantine. With them are the fifty five (55) equally beautiful and elegant SAGALAS representing the women of the different sectors of the society, Tangub City personalities, and lady municipal mayors. It was well attended by the different government officials of the whole Province of Misamis Occidental. The grandiose event started with a Holy Mass held at the Parish of St. Michael and followed by a procession and parade of the fifty five (55) elegant Sagalas together with Reina Emperatriz and Reina Elena with Constantine around the main thoroughfares of the City and ended at the Sinanduloy Cultural Center for the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary-the Greatest Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Mother of the Universe, Mother and Queen of
Hon. Governor Hermina M. Ramiro as Reina Emperatriz with escort Actor Aljur Abrenica.
ZAN 2015 is Tangub City’s culmination of the long SobreMesa Summer Fair which started after Holy Week and Easter Sunday. She further said that SobreMesa is a gathering of families, relatives and friends on a banquet table for a Tet-a-Tet, eat and share gourmet cuisines with families and loved ones, taste of native food, talk and share memories and ex-
Vice Governor Aurora Virginia M. Almonte as Reina Elena and Jasper Clion Pacate as Constantine.
tourist destination is so blessed since all their festivities are always anchored on true faith and religious aspirations. Dalit Festival which is held every September 29 is celebrated during the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel , the city’s patron saint. Dalit The Blessed Virgin Mary. Festival means offering, a festival that showcases the Philippines, Mother the different ethnic and of Misamis Occidental, non-ethnic dances with Tangub City and our special steps of Subanon Mother and Protector. basic steps. Christmas These women represent Symbols Festival is one Mama Mary in their a kind which showown respective lives cases on the Christmas as loving and dotting Symbols displayed at mothers to the their the city plaza from Noown children and Mothvember to January. The er of the communities Festival is an exhibit of where they belong. Tangubanons ingenu In an interview, Ms. ity and creativity with Jennifer Wee Tan-the Christmas celebrating concurrent Chairperson the Birth of Our Savior of the Northern MindJesus Christ with spirit anao Regional Tourism of love and unity. Council (NMRTC) and And now, another the woman behind the Religious Tourism grandiose celebration Festivity TANGUB told Mindanao Daily CITY SANTACRUNews that SANTACRUZAN depicting Blessed Virgin Mary as the Mother of the Universe, the Mother of the Philippines. The Protective Mother of Filipinos and of every Tangubanon along with the women of the Bible who became part and partial of the whole Christendom Salvation History. He further said that Tangub City throughout the county today really observe the real essence of SANTACRUZAN Festivity with religiosity as a tourist destination. Of the fifty seven (57) sagalas, forty eight (48) sagalas deHonorable Mayor Philip Tan and first lady of Tangub City. Tourism Czar-Regional Director Catalino ‘Butch’ E. Chan III. periences. It is a venue where families, friends, relatives and friends, visitors and tourists are bonded together with love, oneness, strong family bond and enjoy the amenities of Tangub City as a tourist destination. Tourism Czar-Regional Director Catalino ‘Butch’ E. Chan 111 in his message said that Tangub City being one of the country’s leading
picted Our Blessed Virgin Mary at the Litany of Loreto as Mother of Our Savior, Mother Most Pure, Queen of Peace, and other Marian devotions attributed to her and the Queen of Flowers for Flores de Mayo Celebration. Eleven (11) salagas-which mean power were depicted as strong women of Christianity- Salvation History like Reina Sheba, Queen Judith and other queens based on the Bible Story. Historically, Reina Elena with her son Constantine the Great found the Holy Cross where Our Savior Jesus Christ was crucified. The Holy Cross was his guide whenever and wherever he fought against the pagan nations and converted them to Christianity with the guidance and prayers of his MotherReina Elena and her Mother- Reina Emperatriz. They converted the pagan nations and strengthened Christianity- thus the story of the Santacruzan of the Philippines. The Honorable Mayor Philip Tan thanked the Parish Priest and the Parish Council of the Church St. Michael the Archangel for supporting the Religious Tourism Festivity of the Local Government Unit of Tangub City. Through their cooperation, coordination, oneness and prayers the Festivity was a tremendous success for the tourism industry of Tangub City.