Hello, as I was scrolling through my pictures, I stumbled on a pic of my cousin I took last May.
Flores de Mayo (Spanish for "flowers of May") is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May. It is one of the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for the entire month.
The Santacruzan (from the Spanish santa cruz, "holy cross") is the ritual pageant held on the last day of the Flores de Mayo. It honors the finding of the True Cross by Helena of Constantinople (known as Reyna Elena) and Constantine the Great. Its connection with May stems from the old May 3 date of Roodmas, which Pope John XXIII deleted from the General Roman Calendar of 1960 as it was a duplicate of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on September 14.
