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Holy Week
Christian communities around the world are currently celebrating Holy Week - both the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. Holy Week commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. Observances range from the elaborate and fanciful to simple and reverential, and vary a great deal between communities, regions, countries, and churches. Collected here are a small sample of photographs from Holy Week observances around the world. (34 photos total)
Women wearing a traditional mantilla dress take part in a procession of the "Gitanos" brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian city of Malaga, southern Spain April 6, 2009. Hundreds of Easter processions take place around the clock in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)
The statue of the La Merced Virgin is carried during the "La Merced" brotherhood procession of the Holy Week in Bollullos de la Mitacion, near Sevilla, Spain on April 9, 2009. Christian believers around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP/Getty Images) #
A masked penitent kneels as he flagellates himself during the start of a procession as part of Holy Week celebrations through the streets of Taxco in the Mexican state of Guerrero April 9, 2009. Hundreds of penitents, bound and flagellating themselves, wound through the labyrinthine cobblestone streets of Taxco, an almost 500-year-old silver mining town built into a mountainside, in one of the most dramatic and heartfelt Easter rituals staged in this fervently Catholic country. (REUTERS/Henry Romero) #
Filipino flagellants kneel in front of the church as they perform rites meant to atone for sins at San Fernando city, Pampanga province, northern Philippines on Maundy Thursday, April 9, 2009. Many Philippine devotees practice flagellation and penitence during the holy week in rites frowned upon by church leaders in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #
Christian pilgrims carry a cross into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the sites where Christians believe Christ was crucified and buried, during the Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's old city on April 10, 2009. Thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world poured into the Holy City of Jerusalem to pray along the traditional route Jesus took to his crucifixion. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images) #
A Catholic devotee has his hands nailed on the cross as part of reenacting Christ's suffering on the cross during a Passion play as part of a religious ritual during Easter celebrations in a village in San Fernando, Pampanga, north of Manila, on April 10, 2009. Devout Catholics stage passion plays and crucifixions recounting the sufferings of Christ as part of observance of Easter celebrations in South East Asian archipelago nation of some 90 million of which 85 percent are Catholics amidst sharp criticisms from the church. (JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images) #
MORE LINKS AND INFORMATION
Holy Week - Wikipedia entry
Holy Week in Madrid, When Religion and Partying Mingle - NYTimes Globespotters blog, 04/02
Capirote - The conical hat and robe worn by penitents (unfortunately copied later by the KKK in America)
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