AFTER two years of skipping it due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa will hold a procession to Mt. Tapochao on Good Friday, April 15, thanks to the family of the late Francisco “Tanko” Palacios which made a new cross for the occasion.
On Tuesday, Rev. Fr. Rey D. Rosal blessed the new cross “for public veneration” at Mt. Carmel Cathedral with the Tanko clan members.
Tanko was a long-time parishioner of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa.
Rep. John Paul “Pacho” Palacios Sablan, one of Tanko’s grandchildren, said each year, their family makes a cross for the Good Friday procession to the island’s highest summit.
The public veneration on Tuesday, he said, also coincided with the 25th death anniversary of their grandmother, Rufina Demapan Palacios.
“We have been doing this for four generations now,” Representative Sablan said.
For the past two years, however, the cross they made remained outside the cathedral.
This year, the new cross will be carried in a procession to Mt. Tapochao on Good Friday — one of the island’s most famous annual events.
Rev. Fr. Rey D. Rosal center, is joined by four generations of the Francisco “Tanko” Palacios clan at Mt. Carmel Cathedral. Also in the photo is the new cross that will be brought to the summit of Mt. Tapochao on Good Friday.
Rep. John Paul Palacios Sablan, right, and other members of the Tanko clan, carry a cross following a public veneration at Mt. Carmel Cathedral on Tuesday.
With a help of a crane operator, Tanko clan members erect a cross outside Mt. Carmel Cathedral on Tuesday.
