SOA JOAO

 

साओ जोआओ को सेंट जॉन द बैपिस्ट भी कहते है और प्रतिवर्ष 23 जून को मनाया जाता है। यह त्योहार सेंट जॉन द बैपटिस्ट को समर्पित है, जिन्होंने जॉर्डन नदी पर प्रभु यीशु को बपतिस्मा दिया था और इसे मानसून की शुरुआत में मनाया जाता है। उत्तरी गोवा का एक गांव सिओलिम, साओ जोआओ के अवसर पर पारंपरिक डोंगी परेड का आयोजन करता है।

Sao Joao is a Catholic festival celebrated in Goa in an unusual manner, with devotees leaping into, and swimming in, domestic drinking water wells, as a form of tribute to St. John the Baptist. This festival is marked by young men in Goa jumping into wells to retrieve the gifts thrown in by the villagers

In Goa, Sao Joao is an occasion for the family and the villagers to get to know their newly wed daughters' husbands a little better. Traditionally, the new son-in-law would be crowned with festive headgear of fruits and leaves, taken around the village and would then jump into the well with other revelers.

We also celebrated the same with our children.

Please have a look.