The weather cooperated enough today (in fits and starts) for a hermandad to make its way through town with two pasos.

I’m not sure my words could do justice to one of these processions, so I’ll just leave you with photos and a video. I wish I could send you all a scratch-and-sniff card as well, so that you could smell the incense.

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Later in the evening (after yet another downpour), I happened to be near the cathedral and noticed that people were clearly congrating and waiting. It turns out that the same procession I had seen some four hours earlier had taken refuge in the cathedral during the worst of the rain and was now waiting for the weather to improve so it could leave there and process back to its home church.

We waited and waited — probably an hour or more — and finally the setting sun started to shine on the tops of the buildings. Among thousands of people, I had unwittingly managed to secure a perfect front-row spot to stand when the procession, with all candles blazing, headed out the cathedral doors and on its way. I had no proper camera with me, but I managed to capture these images of the two pasos with my phone.

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Happy Easter, everyone.