People
The Hagonoeños are known to be very hospitable. Visitors during festivals or fiestas are usually overwhelmed with the degustation that includes the traditional Spanish menu, the popular native recipes, the seafood (assorted fish, shrimps, crabs, prawns, clams, oysters), the very popular "atchara", and the desserts (leche flan, haleya, beans of several varieties, salads, pastries including the pastillas puro, and tropical fruits).
They are profoundly attached to their religious heritage and devoted to their pious Christian life. Their religious predilection is overtly shown by the names of their barangays: 19 of the 26 barangays of this town were named after saints.
Annual fiestas are held to honor the town's and each barangay's patron saints. The town's patron saint is St. Anne (the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary) or fondly called Apo Ana in the vernacular by the natives. She is enshrined at the church named after her in the poblacion. This church is a National Shrine. There are also small fiestas among the different puroks of the barangays. There are feasts for the: Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of the Rosary, and other commemorative feasts of the Catholic Church. The Holy Week observance include flagellants on the road, zarzuelas, the "pabasa" (the passion sang as a psalm), the Good Friday and Easter dawn processions, in all the parishes. The Good Friday processions of the Poblacion and the Sto. Rosario parishes are attended by at least 15 Lenten icons. The fiestas and Holy Week rituals are deemed as a sacred tradition. Some barangays hold their feasts with extraordinary roadside decorations and buntings so elaborate that the road is almost covered with overhead decor sufficient to screen-off the sunlight at noontime.
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