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April 26th 2010 02:24
Holy Week in Christianity is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) and Good Friday. It commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ before his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Religious observations throughout the world during Holy Week vary greatly and include many different traditions and cultures.
Below are images taken across the globe in Holy Week 2010. These pictures are part of a large series sourced from this article on Boston.com.
Religious observations throughout the world during Holy Week vary greatly and include many different traditions and cultures.
Below are images taken across the globe in Holy Week 2010. These pictures are part of a large series sourced from this article on Boston.com.
A Christian worshiper holds a candle inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher during a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City on April 2, 2010. Christian worshipers retraced the traditional route Jesus Christ took along the Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Girls run as boys throw water at them as part of traditional Easter celebrations in the village of Szenna, Hungary on April 2, 2010. Locals from Szenna celebrate Easter with a traditional "watering of the girls", a fertility ritual rooted in Hungarian tribes' pre-Christian past, going as far back as the second century after Christ.
Members of the Spanish Legion carry the icon, Christ of the Good Death, to the Santo Domingo de Guzman Church during an easter procession on April 1, 2010 in Malaga, southern Spain.
At least one hundred penitents carry the image of Jesus Christ during a Holy Week procession in downtown Guatemala City, Guatemala on Thursday, April 1, 2010.
A man, carrying a candle and a bundle of cactus on his shoulders, takes part in a procession of penitents during Holy Week in Taxco, Mexico, late Thursday, April 1, 2010.
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