Procession of Silence

By Heliodoro Leon Cerna The procession of silence is a ritual with more than 55 years of tradition in Patzcuaro that is celebrated during Holy Week on Easter Saturday. It is carried out to commemorate the passion and death of Jesus Christ by an act of mourning. It is carried out by the Hooded Brotherhood of the Lord of the Third Order of the temple of St. Francis of Assisi and was born in Pátzcuaro in 1964, with Father Juan Camacho as the assigned guardian. On this first occasion some…

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