All images © Kevin Moloney


Laying hands on the face of Jesus, a devotee pays homage to the dead Christ after the antique statue was removed from a cross and paraded through the streets in a long funeral procession. Devotees file by the statue — interred for the night in one of Ouro Prêto’s massive churches — touching the wounds in his hands and feet, kissing his crown of thorns and leaving change in a basket for the church.



In preparation for a procession in honor of the resurrection on the morning of Easter Sunday, citizens of Ouro Prêto lay out an elaborate carpet of sawdust and flower petals through the cobbled streets. Music rolls out of windows and friends chatter through the night of Holy Saturday while preparing the several-mile-long carpet.



Marching up the hilly streets of Ouro Prêto, a young angel watches the passing crowd during the resurrection procession of Easter morning.



Swinging an incensor, a young altar boy makes way for a local priest carrying the Holy Eucharist during Easter Sunday’s procession in Ouro Prêto, Brazil.



Igreja do Carmo, one of Ouro Prêto’s 13 baroque masterpiece churches, towers above the small city in Brazil’s interior.


All images © Kevin Moloney

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