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The runners of the Cristo del Sahúco

Peñas de San Pedro, Sierra de Alcaraz y Campo de Montiel, Albacete

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The runners of the Cristo del Sahúco

Activity · Peñas de San Pedro, Sierra de Alcaraz y Campo de Montiel, Albacete

Image of Peñas de San Pedro, not of the place itself.

Pilgrimage held in Peñas de San Pedro, province of Albacete, in which the image of the Santísimo Cristo del Sahúco is carried at a run on the shoulders between its sanctuary in the hamlet of El Sahúco and the parish church of the town, a route of about 15 kilometres. The bringing takes place on the first Monday of Pentecost and the return, more crowded, on 28 August; along the way the runners make three stops — El Pardalejo, La Rambla and El Puente La Solana — where the townspeople gather to kiss the feet of the Christ. They wear white shirt and trousers and a coloured sash, traditionally blue, in one of the most distinctive and best-attended ethnographic events of the province.

Photo: ibelmonte (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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