Thousands of Catholic pilgrims took part in a centuries-old Easter procession in eastern Indonesia on Friday.
Around 7,000 people held Mass on Flores island's Larantuka for Good Friday before transporting a box believed to hold a sacred Baby Jesus statue in a flotilla along the Catholic-majority town's coast.
Semana Santa, or Holy Week, rituals returned in Larantuka, a quiet town dubbed by some as"Indonesia's Vatican"."This is a spiritual pilgrimage. We were amazed. I got goosebumps seeing this for the first time," she said. They will light candles and carry a statue of Mary in a march alongside the Jesus statue, which is typically in a black-draped coffin.
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