JUAZEIRO DE NORTE, Brazil (AP) — For almost a week, including the Day of the Dead, the Brazilian city of Juazeiro do Norte is filled with thousands of pilgrims who come to honor "Padre Cicero," a figure venerated here as a saint but not recognized as one by the Roman Catholic Church. The local population kept on believing, and his followers have transformed Juazeiro do Norte into a place of pilgrimage, one of the leading centers of popular religiosity in Latin America with hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Pilgrims walk along a 2 kilometer (1 ½-mile) dirt path to get to the site of Padre Cicero's tomb, carrying pictures of him and crosses that have dangling, colorful ribbons. Like Gomes de Carvalho, hundreds of thousands of others visit the large statue each year, along with other, smaller statues and chapels built to remember the man who is considered the patron saint of this city in Ceara state.
Ap Photos: Pilgrims In Northeast Brazil Honor Padre Cicero
By YESICA FISCH and LEO CORREA, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: World
Tue, 11/03/2015 - 1:36pm
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