IRA DANII MARQUEZ GUIDORIAGAO PERSONIFIES DAMPUG FOR 2012 EASTER CELEBRATION
Cabatuan, Iloilo. April 22, 2012.
Cabatuan, Iloilo (4/22/2012)

THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION of Holy Week in the Parish of San Nicolas de Tolentino, Cabatuan, Iloilo is climaxed by the staging of a traditional ceremony locally known as “DAMPUG.”

DAMPUG is an angel personified by a small boy or girl who will announce the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death. The ceremony takes place at 4:30 A.M. of Easter Sunday. It is preceded by a procession from the Church to the “dampugan” or the place where the ceremony will take place. During the procession, the images of the Risen Christ and His Sorrowing Mother, borne on the shoulders of devotees, will meet at the “dampugan” and then the ceremony starts.

This year, the personification of our “dampug” will assume the personality of a girl. She is IRA DANII MARQUEZ GUIDORIAGAO.

IRA DANII is the only girl among the three children of Ramon Dominic Guidoriagao and the former Rhoda Marquez. Her twin brother is Ire Dominique and her little brother is Pete Daniel. She is the granddaughter of Avelina Suobiron Marquez and the late Pedro Marquez on the maternal side and Elias Guidoriagao and the late Melba Barrios Guidiriagao on the paternal side. Ira, as she's fondly called, is 7 years old and in First Class in Guardian Angel School in Dublin, Ireland. The last year's Dampug, Claire Marquez Sulatra, is her first cousin.



PASKWA SANG PAGKABANHAW NI HESUKRISTO

Ang mga dampug magkapala
Ang mga alupu-op maghalawa
Kay ang kasakit nga bugana
Natigayluhan na sang himaya.

Maghimaya ka O Reyna nga langitnon
Kay ang gindala sang imo tiyan
Nabanhaw nga wala mag lidan
Siling sang iya pinamulong.

Magkinalipay ang kalibutan
Magkinasadya ang katawuhan
Maghimaya ang kalangitan
Kay ikaw ang ambahan nila.

O halangdon nga prinsesa
Emperatriz sang langit kag duta
Atubanga ang himaya
Talikdi ang kasakit kag kagha.

Maghimaya ka kag magkasadya
Kay nyan natapos na
Ang pagpanubos sang mga sala
Sang mga inapo ni Eva.

Yanang bilidhon mo nga korona
Nga sa ulo mo napahantang
Amo ang tanda sang paghigugma
Sang Dios sa kalangitan.

Kag didto ka kunina pagakoronahan
Sa himaya nga matam-is kag luntad
Nga gintigana nga daan sa imo
Sang Santisima Trinidad

Busa, paalam na ako
Sa mahal nga atubangan mo
Kag didto magahulat ako
Sa langit nga imperio.

Viva! Viva! Viva! Iloy sang Dios kag iloy man naton tanan.

Photo and info by
Peter John Mina Cudo, Rhoda Marquez Guidoriagao





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