"SAKLOT" OF EASTER SUNDAY IN MALINAO,ALBAY

Christian Bicolanos uniquely celebrate Easter sunday, which highlights Jesus Christ's ressurection, in early dawn. The ceremony begins with a procession and ends up with the "salubong"(in Tagalog) or "saklot"(in Bicol) where the sorrowful mama mary encounters her risen son, Jesus Christ.

At the start of the "saklot", cute angels surrounding the Sorrowful Mama Mary sing the "Regina Coeli," which means "Queen of Heaven."

Simultaneously, three little angels are successively brought down from an upper deck of a castle-like structure using poles to take out the veil of the Sorrowful Mother. Each of the three angel sings her own line in the Regina Coeli.

Finally, the Easter Sunday mass is held.. .