No procession again on Dec. 8 but Santa Marian Kamalen will pass through villages

It’s one of Guam’s holiest holidays, but there will be no annual procession in Hagatna that day. Instead, the statue of Santa Marian Kamalen will go around the island that day. Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica Parochial Vicar Father Juni Valencia explained the details.

"She will be doing her visitations, just like what we did last year to all the parishes and throughout the island, the different villages,"  he said. "The past Dec. 8’s since the pandemic began, there’s just been a great outpouring of love and devotion to Our Lady as she made her way through the villages and the parishes and the beautiful thing about that is those who are homebound, those who are sick or stuck at home or can’t really travel, they’re able to experience and pray as she passes by."

The Patroness of Guam will leave the Cathedral at 7 a.m. to make her rounds to the parishes and villages. She is expected to be back at the cathedral by 5 p.m. The Archdiocese of Agana says that the island-wide visit of Santa Marian Kamalen is not a motorcade and asks residents to not organize any motorcades to follow the statue.