Moriones of Marinduque

April 9, 2010 at 12:01 PM · Filed under Events and tagged: penitents, Moriones, morions, Marinduque, Boac, Gasan, Tres Reyes, Gaspar Island, festival, Holy Week, crucifixion, flagellants, Bellarocca

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With masks and capes they came,
With axes and spears they walked,
Garbed in armors, one in thought,
for Longinus they seek, his death foretold.

The colorful Moriones Festival of Marinduque, based on the legend of Longinus, the Roman centurion who pierced Jesus in his side with a lance while He was on the Cross; with blood that spurted forth touched his blind eye and fully restored his sight. This miracle he proclaimed “Truly this man was the Son of God.”
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