Velación [Vigil] de San Felipe de Jesús

As explained last year, velaciones, vigils, are a very important tradition during Lent and Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala. Velaciones are altars or shrines made for the catholic figures that later on will be on top of the floats, andas in Guatemalan Spanish, which are the nucleus of the processions. The velación shown here was set up inside the gothic church of San Felipe de Jesús.

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