Holy Week 2011

Dressed in all white and carrying candles and replicas of bones, worshipers participate in the "Procession of the Souls" at 11:55 PM on Good Friday in Mariana in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The procession re-enacts a legend of the city: during holy Week, the dead leave the cemetery in procession to the church. (Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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Dressed in all white and carrying candles and replicas of bones, worshipers participate in the "Procession of the Souls" at 11:55 PM on Good Friday in Mariana in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The procession re-enacts a legend of the city: during holy Week, the dead leave the cemetery in procession to the church. (Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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