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Holidays!

Holy Week is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. It includes religious holidays like Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday that commemorate Jesus' last days. The Purisima is celebrated in December to honor the Virgin Mary. During the week before, people pray novenas and gozosos. On the day, people go from house to house singing songs from the novenas and are given gifts, and fireworks are set off to conclude the celebration at midnight.

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Holidays!

Holy Week is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. It includes religious holidays like Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday that commemorate Jesus' last days. The Purisima is celebrated in December to honor the Virgin Mary. During the week before, people pray novenas and gozosos. On the day, people go from house to house singing songs from the novenas and are given gifts, and fireworks are set off to conclude the celebration at midnight.

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Holidays

Holy Week
Holy week is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. It's usually a free week for most people since most corporations are closed. People usually go to the beach and spend time with their families, but they also go to church. This week includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), which is the Christian feast, or holy day, falling on the Thursday before Easter, it commemorates the Maundy and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles as described in the Canonical gospels, Good Friday, which is a religious holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary, and Holy Saturday, which is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which Christians prepare for Easter, It commemorates the day that Jesus Christ's body lay in the tomb, but it does not include the Easter Sunday. It is followed by Easter Week in the Liturgical year.

La Purisima The Purisima is a holiday which is celebrate during December 7. During the week before people pray the novenas and the misterios gozosos. The purisima are celebrated for Virgin Maria, people go around the streets looking for houses celebrating them and sing songs from the novena, the people celebrating give things like caas, oranges, glasses, candies, toys and other things to people who go there to sing, they also set off fireworks. It usually lasts until 12 am or so, and at that time people use their best fireworks to finish up.

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