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  • Priests waiting for the Pope to arrive at mass for 150,000 people gathering at an open air mass at St Anne D'Auray. Bowls of  wafers are prepared for Holy Communion. September 19996, France
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  • Catholic priests awaiting the arrival of the Pope. 200,000 people attend an open air mass at Reims
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7690_5_24.jpg
  • Nuns talking to member of the Swiss Guards while waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Young monks chanting in prayer whilst leaning on their prayerr sticks during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Pilgrim makes the ascent over rock and through mist and rain to the summit of Croagh Patrick. Ireland's patron saint Patrick fasted for 40 days on the summit in 441 AD. County Mayo, Ireland.
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7695_6_32.jpg
  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7693_3_5x.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7483_12.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7487_2a.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit by the cave that is home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7482_33.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit by the cave that is home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Pilgrims gather for morning prayers at the edge of Met Maryam one of the undergroung rock hewn churches of lalibela. Ethiopia
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A nun sorting seeds outside the cave that is her home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7437_22.jpg
  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The faitful awaiting the weekly Papal Audience in St Peter's Square, the Vatican. Rome, Italy.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chanting in prayer during the Timkat (Epiphany) celebrations. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7455_30.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7459_12.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Portrait of a nun in prayer. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Crowds wait outside the Cathedral for the announcement of the miraclulous liquifaction of St Genaro's blood. A sample of the Saint's blood was saved after his execution by the emperor Diocietian who persecuted fellow Christians. The miracle of the liquificationis reputed to protect the population from unexpected lava bursts from Vesuvius.
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  • Awaiting the weekly Papal Audience in St Peter's Square, the Vatican. Rome, Italy.
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
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  • Priests in St Peter's Square, The Vatican. Rome, Italy.
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  • The Pope greeting the faithful from the back of his vehicle at his weekly audience at St Peter's Sqaure, the vatican. Rome, Italy
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7695_2_9.jpg
  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7690_4_20.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit by the cave that is home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7490_10.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7486_18.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A pilgrim kisses the cross while being blessed during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priests carrying a Tabot, a model of The Ark of the Covenant wrapped in a rich cloth and carried on the head of the priest is assisted by a deacon holding a liturgical parasol. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7481_20.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priests carrying a Tabot, a model of The Ark of the Covenant wrapped in a rich cloth and carried on the head of the priest is assisted by a deacon holding a liturgical parasol. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7481_7.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priests carrying a Tabot, a model of The Ark of the Covenant wrapped in a rich cloth and carried on the head of the priest is assisted by a deacon holding a liturgical parasol. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7479_35a.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7477_7.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priest baptises the crowd during the festival of Timkat. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7473_35.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. During the festival of Timkat (Epiphany), the priest blesses the water before baptising the crowd. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7450_26.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A priest in prayer holding a cross during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7452.34.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia.As dawn breaks, nuns pray outside the tiny chapel of Bet danaghel which was constructed in honour of fifty Christian maiden nuns murdered in the fourth century by the Roman Julian Apostate. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Priest blesses woman with phial of St Genaro's liquified blood. The miracle of St Genaro, Naples Cathedral. Italy. A sample of the Saint's blood was saved after his execution by the emperor Diocietian who persecuted fellow Christians. The miracle of the liquificationis reputed to protect the population from unexpected lava bursts from Vesuvius.
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
    7218_21.jpg
  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
    7218_30.jpg
  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
    7216_29.jpg
  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • Musicians in the cemetery at Acatlan in Puebla State
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  • Families gather at the graveside in the cemetery at the village Acatlan, Mexico. During the celebrations of the Day of the Dead, food and flowers are brought to the graves of loved ones for a celebration oftheir life. Throughout the night and next day people will eat, drink, play music, laugh cry and remember.
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  • A truck laden with musicians and people dressed in wild costumes singing and drinking toured the villages in Oaxaca State, mexico. In San Juan Teposcolul they sang and danced with the locals. The dance of Macaritas symbolises death and is specific to the celebrations of the Day of the Dead. The belief is that by dancing and drinking with death, fear of death is overcome.
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  • Families gather at the graveside in the cemetery at the village Acatlan, Mexico. During the celebrations of the Day of the Dead, food and flowers are brought to the graves of loved ones for a celebration oftheir life. Throughout the night and next day people will eat, drink, play music, laugh cry and remember.
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  • A truck laden with musicians and people dressed in wild costumes singing and drinking toured the villages in Oaxaca State, mexico. In San Juan Teposcolul they sang and danced with the locals. The dance of Macaritas symbolises death and is specific to the celebrations of the Day of the Dead. The belief is that by dancing and drinking with death, fear of death is overcome.
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  • In the village of Cocula, Mexico, a young girl prays during the Day of the Dead celebrations.
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  • In the village of Cocula, Mexico, villagers gather to visit the different "offrendas" in everyones homes part of the Day of the Dead celebrations.
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  • In the village of Cocula, Mexico, a young girl prays during the Day of the Dead celebrations. Taking the role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in a "live offrenda" in her home.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priest blessing monks and priests during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7690_1_2.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7483_26.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit  nun by the cave that is home, cut into the walls of the tunnels and passages that lead to Bet Giorgis, the most beautiful of the rock hewn churches. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monk in prayer with roasary beads and cross. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7442_32.jpg
  • Crowd waits for the miraculous liquification of St Genaro's blood which happens three times a year.  A sample of the Saint's blood was saved after his execution by the emperor Diocietian who persecuted fellow Christians. The miracle of the liquificationis reputed to protect the population from unexpected lava bursts from Vesuvius.
    7702_5_20.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia.Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Members of  brotherhoods from 54 churches in Seville parade through the streets leading effigies of Christ and the Virgin through tens of thousands of people lining the routes. Spain
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  • A nun looks at the Pope through binoculars. 200,000 people attend an open air mass at Reims
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  • Child is baptised in the holy waters of the shrine.
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  • On the 15th of August, The Feast of the Assumption, small harmless snakes appear in the village church. The snakes with the markings of a cross on their heads are believed by some to be an incarnation of the Virgin and are believed to have healing powers. The nakes disapear after the 15th. Markopoulo, Kephalonia, Greece, August 1996.
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  • On the 16th of August, the mummyof St Gerasimos (the patron saint of the island}, is brought out from the monastery, and carried over pilgrims who through themselves on the groumd before the procession. This is believed to have curative healing powers over the pilgrims. The monasteryof Saint Gerasimos, Kephalonia, Greece. 16th August 1996
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox Monestery built on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem, Israel.
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  • Pilgrims walk up the Via Dolorosa marking the Stations of the Cross during Holy Week. Jerusalem, Israel
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  • Members of the "House of Prayer" a group of Christian pilgrims, at a prayer meeting in Jerusalem. Israel.
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  • Pilgrims being baptised in the River Jordan. Kibbutz Kinneret, Israel 1999
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  • On May 13th, 1917, three shepherd children had a vision from the Virgin, saying tht if her requests were granted there would be peace on earth. On the 13th of each month between May and October they hd visions culminating in the miracle of the 3th October when 70,000 people witnessed a "dancing sun". The faithful make their way to the shrine of the Virgin.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Catholicism and Maya traitions meet. Villagers decorate the street before the coffin of Christ is carried through the intricately designed biblical images made from coloured sawdust.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Good Friday. 70 villagemen carry Christ's coffin through the streets of the village. The roads have been painstakingly decorated with biblical patters using coloured sawdust. Throughout the day and night, the procession will continue at a snails pace through the intricately decorated streets. Villagers await the arrival of the procession through the street.
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  • Anun and a young novice in the crowd listening to the Pope. 150,000 people gather at an open air mass atSt Anne D'Auray. September 19996, France
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  • Pilgrims are crucified as part of the Easter, Holy Week celebrations. Kapitangan, Bulacan Province. The Philippines
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  • Pilgrims are crucified as part of the Easter, Holy Week celebrations. Kapitangan, Bulacan Province. The Philippines
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  • Priest blesses woman with phial of St Genaro's liquified blood. The miracle of St Genaro, naples Cathedral. Italy
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  • 15th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary. 6 children claim to have seen the apparition while on Mount Podbrdo. Catholics from around the world make the pilgrimage to Medjugorje. Croatia. 15th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary. 6 children claim to have seen the apparition while on Mount Podbrdo. Catholics from around the world make the pilgrimage to Medjugorje. Bosnia and Hercegovina
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  • Pilgrims camping in the shrine at the shrine.
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  • Pilgrim receives holy communion in the shrine.
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  • Members of the "House of Prayer" a group of Christian pilgrims, at a prayer meeting in Jerusalem. Israel.
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  • Pilgrims walk up the Via Dolorosa marking the Stations of the Cross during Holy Week. Jerusalem, Israel
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  • On May 13th, 1917, three shepherd children had a vision from the Virgin, saying tht if her requests were granted there would be peace on earth. On the 13th of each month between May and October they hd visions culminating in the miracle of the 3th October when 70,000 people witnessed a "dancing sun". The faithful make their way to the shrine of the Virgin.
    7586_24.jpg
  • On May 13th, 1917, three shepherd children had a vision from the Virgin, saying tht if her requests were granted there would be peace on earth. On the 13th of each month between May and October they hd visions culminating in the miracle of the 3th October when 70,000 people witnessed a "dancing sun". The faithful make their way to the shrine of the Virgin.
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  • Holy Week, Santiago Atitlan. Guatemala. 1998. Inside the church awaiting the crucifiction of Christ on Good Friday.
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  • Members of  brotherhoods from 54 churches in Seville parade through the streets leading effigies of Christ and the Virgin through tens of thousands of people lining the routes. Spain
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  • Members of  brotherhoods from 54 churches in Seville parade through the streets leading effigies of Christ and the Virgin through tens of thousands of people lining the routes. Spain
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  • Members of  brotherhoods from 54 churches in Seville parade through the streets leading effigies of Christ and the Virgin through tens of thousands of people lining the routes. Spain
    7058_10.jpg
  • Members of  brotherhoods from 54 churches in Seville parade through the streets leading effigies of Christ and the Virgin through tens of thousands of people lining the routes. Spain
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  • Pilgrims are crucified as part of the Easter, Holy Week celebrations. Kapitangan, Bulacan Province. The Philippines
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  • Pilgrims are crucified as part of the Easter, Holy Week celebrations. Kapitangan, Bulacan Province. The Philippines
    6912_26a.jpg
  • Pilgrims are crucified as part of the Easter, Holy Week celebrations. Kapitangan, Bulacan Province. The Philippines
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