Senor Quiero had fires of blazing pine knots at the door.

When the procession passed we noted its elements.

In front was the band of ten boys; men with curious standards mounted on poles followed.
The first of these standards was a figure, in strips of white and pink tissue paper, of a long-legged, long-necked, long-billed bird, perhaps a heron; next stars of colored paper, with lights inside; then were large globes, also illuminated, three of white paper and three in the national colors--red, white, and green.

Grandest of all, however, was a globular banner of cloth on which was painted a startling picture of the saint's conversion.

All of these were carried high in the air and kept rotating.
Behind the standard bearers came a drummer and the player on the shrill pipe or _pito--chirimiya_.