GASAN: HERITAGE AND HISTORICAL TREASURE

                                                  (Photo credit:  The Colors of Marinduque - Trip the Islands ) Through the years, Gasan continues to alter the way Moriones tradition is conducted, keeping abreast with the times and adapting to changes in the social and cultural terrain, new aesthetic sense and perhaps, even in some respects in technical trends, like documentation through vlogging. In the 70s, the Moriones tradition gained utmost national popularity and pinned Gasan in the international tourism map when Mayor Ruben Mendoza, a staunch promoter of the Morion tradition, initiated to organize Moryon penitents into a unified group, each member registered with tag numbers.                                         (Photo credit: @Turismo, Kultura at Sining ng Bayan ng Gasan) Mayor Mendoza had instituted the “Pugutan” stage play as the culmination of the week-long Lenten tradition. He collaborated with the provincial government (under the administration of then governor C.O.