Putting Faith in a Piece of Rope at Brazil’s Largest Religious Festival
Every year, in the second week of October, millions of Roman-Catholic devotees from all over Brazil descend on the city of Belem to attend Cirio de Nazaré, the country’s largest religious festival, and to touch a 400-meter-long piece of rope believed to have the power to heal the sick. Cirio de Nazaré has been celebrated intermittently […]