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Fiestas Patronales San Antonio de Padua Yaguate in Yaguate
Yaguate, in San Cristobal province, honors San Antonio de Padua as patron saint with a June 13 feast day, following the standard Dominican pattern of novena masses, saint's-image procession and evening verbena. Several other Dominican towns, including Bonao and San Antonio de Guerra, separately celebrate the same saint under their own local traditions.
Yaguate, a municipality in San Cristobal province, honors San Antonio de Padua as its patron saint, with the saint's fixed Catholic feast day falling on June 13, commemorating the thirteenth-century Portuguese-born Franciscan friar renowned across the Spanish-speaking world as a patron of lost things and, in Dominican tradition, often invoked for finding a spouse.