To honor the miraculous wooden black statue of Jesus Christ carried by male devotees during the procession
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Well-known for black paint that most participants put on their bodies. The black paint covers the whole body contrasts starkly with the colorful costumes and ornaments.
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First held in 1980, at the time when sugar cane and sugar prices plummeted the livelihood of Bacolenos suffered. It was also during that year that a terrible maritime tragedy left more than 700 Negrenses dead when the Don Juan and the tanker Tacloban collided with each other and sank. To eclipse the tragedy and sorrow, Bacolod
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It focuses on General Santos City as the “prime destination for culinary and ocean adventure locally and globally”
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Month long festival of beauty
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A little angel is lowered from above toward the image of the Virgin Mary below. The angel slowly takes off the Virgin Mary’s black veil to signify that her son has risen from the dead.