The Vigan City Fiesta is held every January 25. It is celebrated during the feast day of the conversion of St. Paul the Apostle. St. Paul is Vigan City’s patron saint. Before his conversion, St. Paul was known as Saul, a zealous persecutor of Christians. After he was touched by a personal encounter with Jesus Christ on his way to Damascus, his name was changed to Paul and he endured a lot of hardships and danger to spread the word of God to far places. During the festival, every tourist has a chance to try authentic longganisa from Vigan. Usually, local people eat salami for breakfast but the food itself is too good to be eaten during the morning hours only. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 strikes and Bigueños we're not able to celebrate the event like how they celebrated before the pandemic.
Last January 14 this year, the Vigan
City PH page posted an announcement regarding the postponement of the
Vigan Fiesta and Longganisa Festival, the announcement said, "Due to
the current surge of Covid-19 cases in the City and through the recommendation
of the Vigan City Inter-Agency Task Force for Covid-19, the Vigan City Fiesta
and Longganisa Festival 2022 is hereby POSTPONED until further notice.",
and because of that announcement, many people felt sad, including me
because I and my friends have been used to go and watch some different
activities regrading to the celebration of the event. The COVID-19 pandemic is
really a life-changing experience, we are not able to celebrate different
events like the Vigan City Fiesta that we have been celebrating for multiple
years. Instead of celebrating happily, with full of excitement and enjoyment in
that said event, people are in their own houses celebrating the event with
unusual feeling and unusual way, and wishing that the COVID-19 pandemic will
end and the continuously rising number of COVID cases of the said virus will
finally stop. However, we should still feel the presence of happiness like how
we felt before the pandemic strikes. We should not give up wishing that the
COVID-19 pandemic would finally end. And of course, we should also take some
action and not just keep wishing, we should also find ways for us to help
lessen the number of COVID cases here in our place. We should still have to
keep in our mind to follow protocols and be responsible residents. In
celebrating the Vigan Fiesta in New Normal, there are a lot of challenges
people were faced, the local vendors who are expecting that many tourists will
come and visit are disappointed, because usually every celebration of the Vigan
Fiesta, number of tourists are going here in Vigan to join us celebrate,
therefore the local products are patronizing with a lot of tourists which us a
very huge help to our local vendors. Moreover, there were also some who felt
sad because of the postponement of the Vigan City Fiesta due to the rising number
of COVID cases because they were not able to reunite again and celebrate with
their family as usual.
The celebration of the Vigan Fiesta has been a
great experience to everyone, including the tourists who are usually joining us to celebrate the event. Therefore, a lot of us were felt sad with the
announcement. Due to the high number of COVID-19 cases, the celebration of
Vigan Fiesta in New Normal is really different than the usual, many planned
activities and contests have not happened. Hopefully, the number of COVID-19
cases will finally stop growing so that we are able to celebrate the Vigan
Fiesta again like how we are celebrating it before the pandemic. Looking
forward to have a wonderful celebration again with these upcoming many more
years.
Sources:
https://www.vigan.ph/attractions/vigan-city-fiesta.html
https://www.facebook.com/803794196333402/posts/4935974249782022/
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