The Sao Joao festival is celebrated on this day, June 24. This is the time when after the onset of the Monsoon, streams overflow with water, lakes get filled with water and waterfalls come alive in the hilly areas in Goa. 

• The Sao Joao festival celebrated on June 24 is in a way a festival of fertility in Mother Nature.
• The festival as it is related to the Christian calendar also commemorates Biblical incidents connected to two famous nativities, the nativity of St. John the Baptist and the Nativity of his close relative who is none other than Jesus Christ, his birth celebrated all over the world as the Christmas.