The feast day of Saint Augustine on August 28, 2014 started
with a mass at Saint Augustine Cathedral at about 4:00 am. It was followed by a
street procession which passed through the city’s urban villages or barangays .
Later in the morning at about 10:00 a.m. a fluvial parade of decorated boats and
rafts from the different barangays went upstream from Macabalan to the Duaw
Park at the back of the city hall buildings. The fluvial parade is a part of
the religious procession of the fiesta. In addition to the boats that carried
the icons of Saint Augustine and his mother Saint Monica, participating barangays had
with them the icons of their respective patron saints. Also in the parade was
the boat boarding Miss Beatrice Alvarez Pohl, the newly crowned Miss Cagayan de
Oro and the other young ladies that participated in this year’s beauty pageant.
The procession is a way of seeking divine providence and of promoting endeavors
that protect and preserve the environment.
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