Women and couples line up to be " blessed".
Plenty of childless women go to this feast each year.
Women who have diseases located in their womb area also go and have their bodies "blessed" by the ritual in Church.
A woman holds her womb area after the ritual.
The young priest holds a religious symbol on the young woman's womb.
A couple celebrate their child who was born after their attendance in the religious feast.
Couples wait for the religious dancing to arrive at the Church.
This woman has danced at the religious feast for the last 2o years.
The Obando fertility dance occurs every month of May in Obando, Bulacan, a province about thirty minutes away from Manila. The religious feast is in honor of three saints: St. Clare, St. Paschal,and Our Lady of Salumbao who are said to be powerful enough to grant the wishes of childless couples and unmarroed single men and women. There are also those who come and seek good fortune and so they also join the couples who dadnce in the streets for these saints.
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