OUR LADY OF PENAFRANCIA PROCESSION IN TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

 
By Leticia Peralta Toral & Romy Zetazate
Scarborough-Canada
September 18, 2018
 


The Bicolanos and Bicolanos living in the province of Ontario, Canada, trooped to the Blufers Park, Scarborugh  Lake at Brimley, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada to honor the miraculous Our Lady of Penafrancia the Patron Saint of the Bicol Region.



Headed by Earl Francis Orino Dacara, president of the Bicol Canada Community Association including the other BCCA officers, convincing hundreds of Bicolanos and Bicolanas who settled in the province of Canada's province of Ontario.

The procession was both on land and water or fluvial.

After the fluvial procession a mass was held with Msgr. Edgar Pan of Goa, Camarines Sur who is the parish priest of St. Rose of Lima Parish at 3216 Lawrence Avenue East, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

 

In the evening, a mass was held at the Our Lady of Assumption which was coupled with a social. (St. Jamestown News Service)********