Photos of the Week: Our Lady of Guadalupe; St. Lucia’s Day

By Kit Doyle · December 15, 2023
 (RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes St. Lucia's Day, the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe and more. Pilgrims gather outside the Basilica of Guadalupe on her feast day in Mexico City, early Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. Devotees of Our Lady of Guadalupe gather for one of the world's largest religious pilgrimages on the anniversary of one of several apparitions of the Virgin Mary witnessed by an Indigenous Mexican man named Juan Diego in 1531. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) Devotees pray in front of a figure of the Virgin of Guadalupe during a festival celebrating one of several apparitions of the Virgin Mary witnessed by an indigenous Mexican man named Juan Diego in 1531, at St. Ann Mission in Naranja, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. For this mission church where Miami's urban sprawl fades into farmland and the Everglades swampy wilderness, it's the most important event of the year, both culturally and to fundraise to continue to minister to the migrant farmworkers it was founded to serve in 1961. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) A statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe stands amid pilgrims sleeping outside the Basilica of Guadalupe on her feast day in Mexico City, early Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. Devotees of Our Lady of Guadalupe gather for one of the world's largest religious pilgrimages on the anniversary of one of several apparitions of the Virgin Mary witnessed by an Indigenous Mexican man named Juan Diego in 1531. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) Young women and men sing carols as they hold candles to celebrate St. Lucia's Day in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Catherine in St.Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. The Church was built in the 19th century by and for Swedish expatriates in Saint Petersburg, and it is usually called the Swedish church. In Soviet era the Church was used as a sport hall. St. Lucia is the patron saint of vision. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) Cambodian Buddhist monks take part in a gathering marking the 75th anniversary of International Human Rights Day in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) A man recites Christian prayers in front of a damaged Satanic Temple display at the Iowa state Capitol on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. The Satanic Temple display, which has prompted outrage by some people who say it’s inappropriate at any time but especially during the Christmas holidays, was damaged Thursday. (AP Photo/Scott McFetridge) A group of Jewish women chain themselves to the White House fence and call for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Washington. The Jewish Voice for Peace affiliated activists timed their protest with the White House Hanukkah celebration, which also occurred Monday. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) Palestinians pray for people killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) People visit the Pauline Chapel, where the icon of Madonna and Child Jesus is displayed, inside the Vatican's Basilica of St. Mary Major, in Rome Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Pope Francis said during an interview he wants to be buried in St. Mary Major, not in the grottoes of the Vatican like other popes. He says that is so he can be near his favorite icon of the Madonna. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Archival Photos Young priests throw snowballs in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, circa 1965. Rome received 10 inches of snow, one of the heaviest storms in years. The snow stopped traffic, toppled trees, and caused hundreds of minor accidents. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) A group of Israeli soldiers move along Manger Square, in Bethlehem, on Dec. 22, 1980, as Christmas patrols are increased throughout the Israeli Occupied West Bank. In the background is the Church of the Nativity. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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