An elderly woman lays flowers to her departed loved one inside the Davao Penal and Prison Farm Colony cemetery at Braulio Dujali, Davao del Norte on Tuesday, Nov. 1, the traditional observance of All Saints and All Souls’ Days. (Mart D. Sambalud/davaotoday.com)
Relatives who visited their dead in Davao City are met by torrential rain showers on Tuesday, November 1 caused by a low pressure area located at 525 km east of northeast Hinatuan, Surigao. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte would rather have his remains placed atop this small corner below his mother’s picture inside the family’s mausoleum at the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Davao City. Duterte visited his parents’ tomb late Tuesday night, Nov. 1. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
A member of the Presidential Security Group guards the entrance of the tomb of Soledad Duterte and former Davao Governor Vicente Duterte, the parents of President Rodrigo Duterte, at the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Davao City on Tuesday, Nov. 1. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Members of Task Force Davao and the Philippine National Police beef up the security outside Mintal Public Cemetery in Tugbok District, Davao City on Monday, Oct. 31. The police also put up an assistance desk along the road. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Rodrigo Valles preps up his daughter’s tomb painting it peach inside the Mintal Public Cemetery before All Saints’ Day. Valles said he makes it appoint to change the color of his daughter’s tomb every year. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Instead of using paintbrush, highschool student Marky, repaints a gravestone with a coin covered in cloth inside the Mintal Public Cemetery. He said it is easier than using a paintbrush. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Two girls here cannot contain their excitement to visit their province to take part in the observance of the All Saints’ Day as a female Task Force (TF) personnel inspect their backpacks at the Davao City Overland Transport Terminal (DCOTT) on Monday, Oct. 31. (Maria Patricia C. Borromeo/davaotoday.com)
Children living near Wireless Catholic Cemetery in Davao City, enjoy their semestral break playing on top of tombs. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Roberto Longlong’s yearly practice during Undas, or All Saints’ Day is to repaint the tombs of his departed father and grandparents at the Mintal Public Cemetery. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)