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Easter Week (Holy Week), Pampanga, Philippines - Photographs

Easter Week, Holy Week, Semana Santa is, by any moniker, a strange event in the Pampanga province of the Philippines.  Some people are voluntarily nailed to crosses in a recreation of Golgotha and others repeatedly beat open wounds on their own backs in order to draw blood.  A few of the particularly 'touched' people choose to do both.  It's a great spectacle but the blood really flies.  I had a shirt and a pair of shorts ruined by excess exposure to the vital fluid of the penitents.

Photographs

Philippines

Boracay

Cockfight

Corregidor

Coup d'état

Easter in Pampanga

Manila

North Luzon

Puerto Galera

Siquijor

Tagaytay

                                   Crucifixion Nail                                             "Jesus" on the Cross

                         Fan Holding a Burilyo                                                       Flagellant

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