WHEREAS, the City of Lipa will host thousands of devotees for the National Pilgrimage, a day of prayer for peace and the sanctification of the clergy on 12 September 2011;

WHEREAS, in order for the people of the City of Lipa participate in the event, the Office of the Mayor requested that 12 September 2011 be declared as a special non-working day.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, PAQUITO N. OCHOA JR., Executive Secretary, by authority of His Excellency, BENIGNO S. AQUINO III, do hereby declare Monday, 12 September 2011, as a special (non-working) day in the City of Lipa.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Eleven.

	By authority of the President:
	(Sgd.) PAQUITO N. OCHOA, JR.
	Executive Secretary