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    Flores de Mayo is a Spanish tradition that honors the Blessed Virgin Mary through flowers during the month of May. It involves collecting flowers and offering them to ladies in devotion. A highlight is the Santacruzan parade featuring the town's most beautiful ladies wearing elegant gowns and walking beneath arches decorated with flowers while portraying different titles of Mary. The procession culminates with Queen Helena and the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is an important cultural festival celebrated in the Philippines with religious significance.

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    Flores de Mayo is a Spanish tradition that honors the Blessed Virgin Mary through flowers during the month of May. It involves collecting flowers and offering them to ladies in devotion. A highlight is the Santacruzan parade featuring the town's most beautiful ladies wearing elegant gowns and walking beneath arches decorated with flowers while portraying different titles of Mary. The procession culminates with Queen Helena and the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is an important cultural festival celebrated in the Philippines with religious significance.

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    Flores de Mayo is a Spanish tradition that honors the Blessed Virgin Mary through flowers during the month of May. It involves collecting flowers and offering them to ladies in devotion. A highlight is the Santacruzan parade featuring the town's most beautiful ladies wearing elegant gowns and walking beneath arches decorated with flowers while portraying different titles of Mary. The procession culminates with Queen Helena and the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is an important cultural festival celebrated in the Philippines with religious significance.

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    ALL ABOUT FLORES DE MAYO

    FLORES DE MAYO
    - Spanish for “Flowers of May”

    - Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

    - Has a Parade called Santacruzan.

    - Collect flowers and offer it to ladies.

    - Santacruzan is the highlight. Parade of town’s most beautiful ladies wearing


    elegant gowns and walking under arcs adorned in flowers.

    - Talk show with PH Beauty Queens, Guest Filipino Designer.

    - Wearing different titles of Mary

    - Blossom of May Devotion.

    - In the Tagalog region, this custom and celebration started after the
    proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854 and after
    the publication circa 1867 of Mariano Sevilla's translation of the devotional Flores
    de Maria or Mariquit na Bulaclac na sa Pagninilaynilay sa Buong Buan nang Mayo
    ay Inihahandog nang manga Devoto cay Maria Santisima (The Flowers of Mary or
    the Beautiful Flowers that in the Meditations During the Whole Month of May are
    Offered by Devotees to Mary the Holiest).

    - Santacruzan - religious-historical beauty pageant held in many cities,


    towns, and even small villages.

    - finding the Holy Cross by Queen Helena, mother of Constantine


    the Great

    - Sagala “maiden”

    - Nine days of prayer (novena) in honor of the Holy Cross precedes


    the Flores de Mayo or Santacruzan.
    - Iba’t ibang Reynas… MADAMI,

    -Each one is dressed in an exquisite, colorful gown, looking as regal


    as the Reina (Queen) she portrays. Reina Fe (Faith), Reina Esperanza (Hope),
    Reina Caridad (Charity), Reina Mora (Muslim), Reina Banderada (Flag), and Reina
    Justicia (Justice) walk with their consorts under hand-carried bamboo arches
    decked with color-themed native flowers.

    - The highlight of the procession is the magestic Reina Elena


    (Queen Helena) who walks with her consort, Prinsipe Constantino, under a huge
    canopy of May flowers. Immediately behind her is a float carrying the image of the
    Blessed Virgin Mary, followed by a brass band that lends the festive sounds to the
    procession.

    - Most important: Reyna Elena (Queen Helena) - the legendary


    founder of the true Cross, represented by the small cross she carries. She is
    escorted by her son, Constantine.

    - The procession is followed by the beat of Rondalla playing and


    singing “Dios Te Salve”. May candle din as they walk. https://www.youtube.com/
    watch?v=MLej0pql7Ik

    - After the procession may pabitin. Goodies hung in strings.

    - Santa Cruz kept secret.

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    FROM DFA INITIAL PROJECT BRIEF


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    Other Readings:
    1. https://businessmirror.com.ph/2020/05/11/a-virtual-flores-de-mayo-2020/

    2. https://businessmirror.com.ph/2019/05/20/flores-de-mayo-2019-rosas-at-
    busilak/
    3. https://www.top-destination-choice-the-philippines.com/flores-de-
    mayo.html#:~:text=The%20Flores%20de%20Mayo%20has,the%20feast%20day%2
    0of%20St

    4. https://www.manilatimes.net/2019/05/19/weekly/the-sunday-times/cover-
    story/flores-de-mayo-in-the-new-millennium/556664/

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