time will discover the hand that baptizes him.
June 8, 1968. “Funeral cortege of Robert F. Kennedy.” More of the mourners who lined the route of RFK’s funeral train as it made its way from New York to Washington. Photos by Paul Fusco and Thomas Koeniges for Look magazine. (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive :: Orange and Blue: 1968)
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People cover a wooden statue of Saint Domenico with snakes during a procession in Cocullo, central Italy. Every year in May, snakes are placed onto the statue of St. Domenico and the statue is then carried in a procession around the town.
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Queen Elizabeth leaves Westminster Abbey with scepter and orb in hand
National Geographic | September 1953
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Revelers carry a portable shrine during a festival. Meiji Period
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The Mysterious Mayas by George E. Stuart and Gene S. Stuart. Photographs by David Alan Harvey and Otis Imboden. National Geographic Society, 1977.
Carnaval, Chamula.
Carnaval links the Passion of Christ with memories of battle including the Caste War of 1867-1870 when Chamula rebelled against the disdained ladino oppressors.
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Bat Mitzvah, Egypt
They look like Roman Catholic girls the day of their First Communion
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Print on paper. “The Holy Mahmal”
Middle East; 20th century
The annual pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca, the hajj, is made in the last month of the Islamic lunar calendar, Dhu al-Hijja. All Muslims should make the pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime, but Islamic law provides for a number of exceptions for people who are unable to make the journey for some reason or other.This print shows the annual pilgrimage caravan from Egypt to Mecca. The Egyptian governor had a beautifully decorated symbolic litter, called a mahmal, transported on camelback. The last Egyptian mahmal embarked on the journey from Cairo to Mecca and back in 1926.
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Charles Freger photographs the costumes of folk festivals around the world in his series, Wilder Mann
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Today Manila celebrates its greatest feast: the annual procession of the Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareneo de Quiapo—otherwise known as the Black Nazarene—which is joined by millions every year. Brought to the country in 1606 by the Augustinians, and carved by an anonymous Mexican sculptor from Acapulco, the Nazareno is believed to be miraculous. Legend holds that this life size statue of Christ received its coloration after surviving a fire that torched the ship that carried it. The image of the Nazareno has survived multiple earthquakes, fires, and bombings, and most recently, the ravages of World War II. Indeed, it is often said that, when the Quiapo district was bombed, and the Senor’s basilica destroyed, it alone, and the tabernacle, remained standing.
(Picture: Jose Lozano Honorato - Yglesia Parroquial de Quiapo; 1847)
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