Women wearing a traditional mantilla dress take part in a procession of the "Gitanos" brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian city of Malaga, southern Spain April 6, 2009. Hundreds of Easter processions take place around the clock in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors.

Penitents take part in a procession of the "Fusionadas" brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian city of Malaga, southern Spain April 8, 2009.

Penitents take part in the La Paz brotherhood procession in Sevilla on Palm Sunday at the start of holy week on April 5, 2009.

Colombian penitents carry an altar during Holy Week processions in Cali, Colombia on April 08, 2009.

A Filipino penitent crawls on the hot pavement as he performs rites meant to atone for sins at San Fernando city, Pampanga province, northern Philippines on Maundy Thursday April 9, 2009.

The face of a statue of the Virgin Mary is seen in the chapel of "Las tres gracias" during Holy Week in Pontevedra, northern Spain, April 9, 2009.

An unidentified masked penitent is seen as he prepares his special clothes the day before the "Los Picaos" brotherhood procession in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, northern Spain

Holy Week - 2009 - Penitents take part in the procession of "La Paz" (The Peace) brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville.

Holy Week 9 - 2009 - Catholic clergy walk during the Holy Thursday procession of the Washing of the Feet inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City.

Holy Week 10 - 2009 - A man, carrying a bundle of cactus on his shoulders in penance, also holds a cross during a procession of penitents during Holy Week in Taxco, Mexico,

Holy Week - 2009 - A hooded penitent takes part in the "Nuestro Padre Jesus del Gran Poder y Maria Santisima de la Esperanza Macarena" Holy Week procession in Madrid, Spain.

Holy Week - 2009 - A view of Saint Peter's Square during the Palm Sunday Service on April 5, 2009 in Vatican City, Vatican.

Holy Week - 2009 - A masked penitent kneels as he flagellates himself during the start of a procession as part of Holy Week celebrations through the streets of Taxco in the Mexican state of Guerrero April 9, 2009. 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.

Holy Week - 2009 - Catholic faithful hold palm fronds during Palm Sunday celebrations in Managua, Nicaragua on Sunday, April 5, 2009. Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and is the start of the Catholic Church's Holy Week.

Holy Week - 2009 - A penitent holds up a staff, taking part in the procession of Palm Sunday brotherhood during Holy Week in Palma de Mallorca.

Holy Week - 2009 - Children wearing hoods as penitents take part in a procession in a school before the start of Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain

Holy Week - 2009 - People throw flowers during the Palm Sunday procession of the "Estudiantes" brotherhood at the start of Holy Week in Oviedo, northern Spain.

Holy Week - 2009 - A penitent walks to his church to start the "San Bernardo" brotherhood procession during the Holy Week in Sevilla.

Holy Week - 2009 - Children dressed as penitents prepare to attend the "Procession of the Torches" during Holy Week in Cidade de Goias, central Brazil.

Holy Week - 2009 - A Penitent in a "dancing of the dead" mask looks on during an Easter Holy Week procession in Verges, Spain.