Parades of San Miguel: Power of the People [] Joseph Toone
News Category: News, Community News, and General Discussion
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Published June 25, 2022
Parades and processions are making a comeback in San Miguel de Allende following the virus years. Like all living organisms, each have their own personalities and no two are exactly the same. Following Dia de Locos, our largest celebration and biggest tourism day of the year, it’s time to take a closer look why that is.
First off, a bit of word play. A parade is a civic event like kindergarteners dressed as flowers on the first day of Spring or tanks rolling down the street on Constitution Day. A procession is a faith-based event. A-OK to cross in front of a parade, not a procession. If you do, you’ll be tracked down and humiliated in the street for having crossing in front of God.
Dia de Locos was in honor of St. Anthony, patron saint of the lost things (“Tony, Tony come around something is lost and can’t be found.”) Consequently it is a procession and not to crossed (pun intended).
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