SunStar
Photo by Cecilia Cobacha
April 03, 2021
FIDELINO JOSOL, 53, did not mind the heat as he wore his hood and robe while walking barefoot in the streets of Palo, Leyte as Catholics observed this year’s Holy Week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Josol, a senior member of an all-male group of religious devotees called “Penitentes,” joined in the veneration of the cross and the procession as part of their religious service and sacrifice to the parish on Good Friday.
A procession of "penitentes" during Holy Week has become a feature of the annual celebration of the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ in the town.