Answer:
fiestas are essentially a festival, typically dedicated to a patron saint, or sometimes meant to celebrate a particular season.
Explanation:
Traditionally, fiestas were used to entice common folk into venerating saints instead of their pagan gods. Fiestas were effective in attracting people to come into church via religious dramas, colorful processions, and an abundance of food.
Fiestas in the Philippines are held to celebrate a patron saint (centuries of Spanish occupation have made the Philippines the only majority-Christian country in Southeast Asia) or to mark the passage of the seasons, depending on which part of the country you're in
The religious statues symbolize the faith of many Filipino households, always revering the saints in altars secluded in a corner of living rooms.
Fiestas make people one: they enjoy, indulge themselves like bayanihan. It is engraved in their culture.
