El Salvador Feast of San Salvador Date: August 6
El Salvador celebrates Feast of San Salvador as a public holiday.
In honor of its patron saint almost every town in El Salvador celebrates a traditional fest. These religious feasts are attended by many people from the rest of the country as it is a time for trading and organizing fairs.
Feast of San Salvador History
“La Bajada” is the final day celebration of the weeklong August Festival.
One of the most popular of these religious feasts is “La Bajada”. “La Bajada” or “The Descent” is celebrated on August 6th in honor of the “World’s Savior”, El Salvador’s Patron Saint. It is called “la Bajada’ because on this day the agricultural workers from the San Salvador volcano and neighboring towns came together to worship the patron saint and to take part in the procession through the thoroughfares of the capital city.
Feast of San Salvador Traditions and Activities
At an average around 1,500 people attended Shavout every night. It raised enough funds to cover all the expenses. In 1998, Feasts of Lord began as a non-profit corporation, which is dedicated to encourage the celebration of God’s appointed times.
Having discussed about the Feasts of Lords, we come back to the August Festival. In San Salvador, the culminating event of the August Festival is “La Bajada”. La Bajada or The Descent symbolizes God in the form of Jesus Christ descending to participate in the world.
This day is marked by a procession in which the statue of El Divino Salvador is carried to the Metropolitan Cathedral. The statue is dressed in purple robes. At the Cathedral there is a giant blue globe representing the world. The statue of Christ disappears into this giant globe. Then a few minutes later El Salvador again emerges from the globe, this time clad in white. This represents transfiguration. The figure of Christ emerges to the loud applause and cheers of the tens of thousands of devotees who gather at the square in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral.
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