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The Good Friday desenclavo (deposition from the cross)

Fuentelmonge, Las Vicarías, Soria

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The Good Friday desenclavo (deposition from the cross)

Curiosity · Fuentelmonge, Las Vicarías, Soria

Image of Fuentelmonge, not of the place itself.

On Good Friday, the locals who play Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus and Saint John the Evangelist unnail from the cross an articulated Christ; the body is then laid in a glass urn and the whole village accompanies the procession.

Photo: Bengt Nyman (CC BY 2.0)

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