[Leica] IMG: Santa Faz 2018

[Nathan Wajsman]

Thursday was a holiday in Alicante, devoted to Santa Faz, a tradition going back 500 years. A procession of many thousands of pilgrims begins at the cathedral in the centre early in the morning and reaches the monastery of Santa Faz, about 8 km to the north, around 10 a.m. The monastery houses an important relic brought here from the Vatican in the 15th century, a piece of cloth supposedly used to wipe Jesus’s face on his way to crucification. On this one day a year, the relic is displayed on the square in front of the monastery, a mass is said, and then people rest/eat/drink/party according to temperament and need. I joined the procession with my bicycle and my camera, which resulted in this gallery of 50 images:

https://www.greatpix.eu/Santa-Faz-2018/

More explanations are included in the gallery description and the captions.

As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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