Good Friday was the day of large processions in all countries with a Catholic tradition. Mexico, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Ecuador... Each one with its particular way of celebrating, remembering and honoring the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. Below we collect some of the most impressive images that have been seen in different parts of the world and the processions that have been witness.
The Via Crucis of San José, Costa Rica consists of a procession that goes through the fourteen stations of the Via Crucis and takes place on Good Friday. It is one of the most important religious celebrations in the country.
Despite the climate of insecurity that Haiti is going through, the Catholics of Port-au-Prince yesterday celebrated their Stations of the Cross characterized by the presence of Nazarenes and parishioners, all of them dressed in white T-shirts or shirts with the image of Mary.
The most popular procession in the Dominican Republic is the huge procession that begins at the 16th-century Cathedral of Santa María la Menor, in Santo Domingo, after mass on Good Friday morning.
The Procession of Silence in the Mexican state of Puebla is considered one of the largest in Latin America. The event brings together more than 125,000 Catholics every year who congregate to venerate the seven most visited images in the city's temples, which are: the Virgen de Dolores, the Virgen de la Soledad, Jesús Nazareno, the Lord of Wonders, the Lord of Mercy, the Child Doctor and the Lord of Analco.
A dirt road, illuminated by lamps of apepú (citrus fruit similar to orange) serves as the setting for the massive procession of the Virgen de los Dolores, at sunset every Good Friday, in Tañarandy. This year, some 25,000 oil lamps have illuminated the route.
The image of Jesus of the Great Power is a replica of the Nazarene of Seville, more than 1.8 meters high and weighing about 160 kilos, which is paraded along 3.3 kilometers through the streets of Quito, in Ecuador, in one of the most massive Good Friday processions in the country.
In the image and likeness of those celebrated in Spain, La Paz held yesterday the Holy Sepulchre Procession, one of the most followed by Bolivian parishioners and which has some of the oldest steps in the country.
