Holly Week

• Photographer
  Anton Afanasyev
• Prizes
  Gold in Editorial/General News

There is very cruel tradition to spend Holy Week in Pampanga province. Hundreds of religious people going one by one across the province and self-torture own body by special lash called burillos. This procedure called penitensya. Also may of them are carryin very heavy wood or banana cross. The culmination of the Good Friday pageant in Pampanga is the crucifixio. It is conducted at multiple sites in the vicinity of three hours of the day (during the Savior's death on the Jesus)