[Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 16: back to Paris, and Santa Faz

[Don Dory]

What can you say, cats and dogs...

Don
don.dory at gmail.com

On Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:50 PM Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I was back in Paris for work again in mid-April, a quick 2-day trip during
> which I had the pleasure of meeting lapsed LUGger (his own description) Leo
> Wesson and his partner Diana.
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> After returning home on Wednesday night, I enjoyed a day off on Thursday.
> The second Thursday after Easter is a local holiday in Alicante called
> Santa Faz (“holy face”). It is a tradition going back more than 500 years,
> am 8 km procession from the cathedral of Alicante to a monastery on the
> outskirts of the city where a monastery (also called Santa Faz) holds an
> important relic, a cloth supposedly used to wipe Jesus’s face on his way to
> the Calvary. In 1489, when the relic was being brought here from Rome (I
> think), a tear rolled down the cloth and it began to rain, ending a long
> drought that had devastated the area.
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> One can choose to believe all that or not, but in any event, each year
> more than 300,000 people participate in the procession. Some for religious
> reasons, others because it is a nice local tradition, and still others just
> to have a good time. And I go to take pictures.
>
> It’s all here:
> https://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=5060
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> And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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