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Fiestas Patronales Nuestra Senora de Regla in Bani
Bani's patron devotion to Nuestra Senora de Regla dates to a late seventeenth-century palm chapel, predating the city's 1764 founding, with the current statue acquired around 1810 and the present cathedral completed in 1889. Recent coverage describes the devotion as continuing to bind the Bani community, with the cathedral restored in 2008.
Bani's patron saint devotion to Nuestra Senora de Regla traces back to the late seventeenth century, when the earliest settlers in this Peravia province area built a small palm-thatched chapel dedicated to the Virgin, decades before Bani's formal founding on March 3, 1764.