snapshots of my hometown - humoring the gods

[binsoup]

This is the church in the town where I grew up, a former Spanish settlement founded in the late 1500s. Like all former Spanish colonial settlements, my hometown had been originally built to grow with the Catholic Church as its literal and metaphoric centre.

Comments

[indri]

Thank you for that. I love reading these kinds of posts. I'd say more but I'm too sleepy right now.

[binsoup]

I'm pleasantly surprised that my hometown had been waiting to come out, and that I actually have things to say about it. I mean everyone's from some town or other. Nobody really actively thinks about it. So, thanks for reading the post.

[onetwomany]

Wow, what a simply amazing post! Like Indri, I love reading stuff like this, and your descriptions brought it to life. I can actually picture the Santacruzan - probably entirely inaccurately, but it's the thought that counts.

Thanks for this, it completely made my mornning.

[binsoup]

You and Indri are very generous. Your saying that my post made your morning made mine.

The Santacruzan (sometimes called Flores de Mayo) is not unique in my town. The whole country celebrates it, but it has since the late 1970s been disengaged from the church and has become more of a civic affair.

If you're still curious, there's a description of the cast of characters of the pageantry here. >>> http://www.hagonoy.com/lbcorpus/halbc007.html

And a gay Santacruzan is photo-documented here. >>>
http://lia.bulaong.com/photos/02-santacruzan