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Filipino 'Mud People' honor John the Baptist

Devotees wearing costumes made of banana leaves attend a mass as part of a religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist, also known locally as the "mud people" festival, in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, on June 24, 2018. Farmers coated in mud paraded in Philippine villages on June 24 to mark one of the Catholic nation's most colorful religious festivals.
Devotees wearing costumes made of banana leaves attend a mass as part of a religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist, also known locally as the "mud people" festival, in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, on June 24, 2018. Farmers coated in mud paraded in Philippine villages on June 24 to mark one of the Catholic nation's most colorful religious festivals.
Noel Celis, AFP/Getty Images
Devotees cover themselves with mud as they prepare to head to church to attend a mass as part of a religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist, also known locally as the "mud people" festival, in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, on June 24, 2018.
Devotees cover themselves with mud as they prepare to head to church to attend a mass as part of a religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist, also known locally as the "mud people" festival, in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, on June 24, 2018.
Noel Celis, AFP/Getty Images
A devotee wearing a costume made of banana leaves attends a mass as part of a religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist, also known locally as the "mud people" festival, in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, on June 24, 2018.
A devotee wearing a costume made of banana leaves attends a mass as part of a religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist, also known locally as the "mud people" festival, in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, on June 24, 2018.
Noel Celis, AFP/Getty Images
Farmers coated in mud paraded in Philippine villages on June 24 to mark one of the Catholic nation's most colorful religious festivals.
Farmers coated in mud paraded in Philippine villages on June 24 to mark one of the Catholic nation's most colorful religious festivals.
Noel Celis, AFP/Getty Images
Devotees wearing costumes made of banana leaves attend a mass as part of a religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist.
Devotees wearing costumes made of banana leaves attend a mass as part of a religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist.
Noel Celis, AFP/Getty Images
The celebration, which concludes with a mass at Aliaga's Saint John the Baptist church, can also be traced back to Japan's wartime occupation of the former US colony in the 1940s.
The celebration, which concludes with a mass at Aliaga's Saint John the Baptist church, can also be traced back to Japan's wartime occupation of the former US colony in the 1940s.
EPA-EFE
Residents say Japanese soldiers ordered all the men from one of the villages in Aliaga to be executed outside a church.
Residents say Japanese soldiers ordered all the men from one of the villages in Aliaga to be executed outside a church.
Basilio H. Sepe, EPA-EFE
As women and children prayed to John the Baptist, there was a heavy downpour that forced the troops to scamper, and prompted the grateful villagers to roll happily in the mud.
As women and children prayed to John the Baptist, there was a heavy downpour that forced the troops to scamper, and prompted the grateful villagers to roll happily in the mud.
Basilio H. Sepe, EPA-EFE
Two men cover themselves in mud as the sun rises.
Two men cover themselves in mud as the sun rises.
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