For almost 60 years, about two thousand people from 28 different guilds (associations of faithful Catholics) come together on Good Friday to participate in this procession, carrying emblems, religious images concerning the Stations of the Cross, and dressed in the distinctive colors of their guilds, Each one of the ,??Guilds,?? carries an image with a picture of Jesus Christ,??s Stations of the Cross and of the mysteries of the Holy Rosary,

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