Siquijor’s healing festival cancelled

Potion makers: Miranda (left) collecting ‘sumpa’ (antidote) that her fellow folk healers and herbalists brewed in Siquijor town last year. — Leo Udtohan/ Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN

For the first time in 22 years, faith healer Rosalinda Miranda will not visit Siquijor province this Holy Week.

“There is no more boat available to bring me to Siquijor, ” said Miranda, 60, who lives in Surallah town in South Cotabato province.