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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Santa Faz 2011
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 19:35:17 +0530
References: <34973FFA-3468-458B-8739-CF1CBA060943@frozenlight.eu>

Very nice - the mood seems to be celebratory - is there any history in that?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> Santa Faz is both the name of a monastery on the outskirts of Alicante and
> of a local holiday. The main event is an 8 km walk starting at 8 a.m. in 
> the
> city's cathedral and ending at the monastery of Santa Faz where a relic--a
> piece of cloth allegedly used to wipe Jesus's face while he was on the
> cross--is kept. The religious aspect is vastly overshadowed by a general
> fiesta held around the event. This year's edition was last Thursday.
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> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Santa-Faz-2011
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
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> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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