A volunteer lights candles in preparation for the Our Lord of the Column procession marking the start of Holy Week March 18, 2018 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The midnight procession involves a life-sized figure of Christ carried eight miles from Atotonilco to San Miguel on the shoulders of the faithful. Holy week lasts two weeks in the festival central Mexican town.

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