Semana Santa

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Semana Santa is the Spanish for Holy Week, the final week of Lent leading to Easter. In Spanish speaking cultures as well as the Philippines this becomes an annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods (Spanish: cofradías) and confraternities that process on the streets of many Spanish speaking towns and cities during Holy Week. In some parts of Latin America it became part of the acculturation of pre conquest beliefs into Catholic culture.

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