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Lent in Guatemala City

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This is a reflection of how Catholic's conmemorate Lent in Guatemala City and Antigua, the best one in the Whole world.

Jesus Nazareno de San Jose

Jesus Nazareno de San Jose
 

Jesus Christ from Saint Joseph church in Guatemala City,  its venerated since 1685 in Antigua Guatemala in a church called "santa cruz del milagro", it was sent to the new "Guatemala de la Asuncion" knowed today as Guatemala City in 1780, since then its in "San Jose church" and from that date its in procession on "1er jueves de Cuaresma" it means first thursday of lent, which is the next day of ash wednesday every year,  procession starts at 2:00 pm and finishes at 12.00 am the next day, for more than 10 hours, and having an itinerary of more than 50 streets in the city, gathering more than 65,000 spectators during the afternoon and night, it has more than 80 musicians in the back that play more than 60 sacred music songs in all the procession, playing "funeral March" by Frederick Chopin, "la Yone" Enricco Petrella, "Jesus de San Jose" Miguel Angel Sosa Ponce, among others.

 

Jesus Nazareno de San Jose
Jesus Nazareno de San Jose
12,904 km (8,018 miles) traveled
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