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Festivals
and Rituals in Peru
San Pedro and San Pablo Festival
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Location: Chorrillos and Lurín
(Lima), San José (Lambayeque)
Date: June 29
Together with the communal task of dredging irrigation ditches, highland
communities celebrate a veritable water festival. On the coast,
fishing communities have chosen Saint Peter as their patron
saint, and render him homage in Lima's fishing districts of
Chorrillos and Lurín, as well as in San José,
located 13 km north of the city of Chiclayo. The ceremony
is held by the mouth of the Lambayeque River, where legend
has it the founding god Naylamp landed on Peruvian shores.
The figure of the saint is borne aloft amidst burning incense,
prayers and hymns down to the sea where it boards a fishing
launch and is taken around the bay to bless the waters in
the hope of a good fishing season.
More Peruvian Rituals
and Festivals
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