good friday san ignacio

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Originally uploaded by teerlinck.

Good Friday. San Ignacio, Cayo District. Belize.

Twelve stations of the cross were set up to represent the hours leading up to the death of Christ. We camped out by the twelfth station and took pictures of the procession. At the station they recited Hail Mary and Our Father through a megaphone in English. Four male pall bearers carried a glass casket with a Jesus figure inside. We heard that down the road at Benque Viejo they had a real actor playing Jesus and he ceremonially fell down at each station. At the previous station we could hear them use Spanish so they may have alternated at each station. I'm guessing this gentleman in front is a Catholic bishop and these are alter boys but they might be Lutheran or Anglican.