December 8 December Feast of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Held in may cities throughout the Philippines. The boat procession held at night on Malabon River and Manila Bay is particularly worth seeing. A charming lantern parade and contest held in San Fernando, Pampanga Province. The winning lantern is displayed after midnight mass. Christmas A family day, much the same as it is in other Christian countries, a movable feast of food and drink and merriment.
Children go from one relative to another receiving blessings and gifts.
Just the same as April Fools' Day in the West. Filipinos enjoy playing practical jokes on the unsuspecting. 30 December Rizal Day Annual commemoration of the day on which the Filipino national hero, Jose Rizal, was executed by the Spanish. All the usual party going, food, drink and bombast associated with these last hours of the year. At the Binalbal Festival of Tudela in Misamis Occidental, people dressed up as witches and ghosts take to the streets in a parade designed to banish evil spirits.