This the municipality celebrates two patron saint festivities, on different dates, for the same saint: Santa Teresa de Jesús, virgin and doctor of the church, October 15 is the true day -by then there are pulsating bullfights-, but for Winter Hardship is also celebrated in January.
Patronal Party of Saint Teresa of Jesus: from January 19 to 26 with cultural activities, among which are the Best Marshmallow contest and on the 22nd there is a carnival with folk dances, dance groups, floats and the candidates for queens of the festivities, who visit the main streets.
The bull stop is also held, offering a delicious soup to the mounted riders and the pilgrimage carts leaving the El Cacao community.
St. Teresa of Jesus
Festivities of Santa Rita de Casia: it is given from April 15 to 17, in the El Caliguate community. Targets, serenades, procession and the encounter of the images with Saint Jerome and the Holy Cross are organized.
Festivities of the Holy Cross: the first three days of May, in the Los Encuentros community, with targets, mass and procession, buffo games and dancing party.
Holidays to Mary Help of Christians: They are organized from May 23 to 26, in the Santa Cruz and Los Cruces communities, with targets, mass and solemn procession with the image, buff games and dancing party.
Festivities of San Antonio: they take place on June 12 and 13, in the San Antonio neighborhood and the San Antonio del Sol community with targets, mass and procession with the image, buff games and dancing parties, lucio stick and the distribution of lunch to parishioners.
Holidays to San Francisco: held from October 4 to XNUMX, in the San Francisco de la Cruz Verde community. Targets, mass and distribution of lunch are held.
Festivities of the Heart of Jesus: They are commemorated from July 3 to XNUMX, in the La Pita community. Targets, mass and procession with the image are held and food is distributed to the parishioners.
Celebration of Corpus Cristi: in the communities of San José de Gracias and Las Cruces, it is celebrated during Lent. Part of the celebration is the procession and lunch sharing for those who signed up to pay some promise. June 12 is the celebration of the San Antonio neighborhood with Eucharist, processions, targets, meals, buffoonery games and fireworks.
La tradition of the pilgrim carts se It begins on the sixth Friday of Lent, leaving the Los Encuentros community and making a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Popoyuapa, in Rivas.
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