This work addresses the question of how the patron saint festivities in San Germán, Puerto Rico assisted in the reconstruction of the Puerto Rican nation during the 1950s. Particularly, I focus on how community leaders reproduced ideas of nationhood based on hispano-centric, white, Catholic, and patriarchal parameters. I investigate how an activity that is perceived to be cultural/religiously oriented has been also used to filter political agendas that legitimized a colonial relationship, while at the same time celebrating a unique collective regional and national identity.