He knew how much they missed Christmas on the islands. Then a light-bulb moment: The perfect symbol was the parol. “The lantern is good because it’s acceptable to everybody. It’s Filipino,” Canlas ...

Each division is tasked with decorating a 1.2 x 1.2-meter lantern frame to capture the spirit of a traditional Filipino Christmas, with participants allowed to source the frame from local parol ...

"Since moving here to our home in 2017, my Mummy would come with a lantern ... home to see their Christmas light display at Steeple Place in Marsden Park NSW. Credit: SBS Filipino/Annalyn Violata ...

Parol is dervied from the Spanish word for lantern, 'farol' FILSPARC's parol ... parol has been a major symbol of Filipino Christmas everywhere in the world. Here in Australia, acquiring or ...