MASKED PENITENT CARRIES THORNY BOUGHS OVER HIS SHOULDERS DURING A PROCESSION THROUGH STREETS OF ..., 2002-03-29...

MASKED PENITENT CARRIES THORNY BOUGHS OVER HIS SHOULDERS DURING A PROCESSION THROUGH STREETS OF TAXCO MEXICO. A Mexican penitent carries thorny boughs over his shoulders as he makes his way to a chuch during a holy week religious festival, in the early morning hours of March 29, 2002 in the mining town of Taxco, in Mexico's state of Guerrero. Hundreds of penitents, bound and flagellating themselves, wound through the labyrinthine cobblestone streets of Taxco, an almost 500-year-old silver mining town built into a mountainside, in one of the most dramatic and heartfelt Easter rituals staged in this fervently Catholic country REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar