LUCENA CITY—In General Luna in Quezon province, about 500 residents wearing papier-mâché masks and clad in brightly colored straw and the traditional tunic of the 'centurions' paraded through its main thoroughfares beginning on Holy Monday, embodying the reinvention of the town as a new Holy Week destination in the future. Mayor Matt Erwin Florido said the town decided to give attention this year to its century-old Centurion Festival, which was sidelined in 2019 and further halted after the coronavirus pandemic hit the country, with a parade participated in by local folk of all ages to ensure that the Holy Week tradition lives on.

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