A penitent cries after the governing body of the “Estudiantes” brotherhood decided that penance could not be carried out in the streets due to rain on Palm Sunday in Oviedo, Spain, on March 20, 2016. #

Penitents wearing masks, known locally as “Morions” take a selfie during the start of Holy Week celebrations in Mogpog, Marinduque, in central Philippines on March 21, 2016. #

A hooded penitent from the “Las siete palabras” brotherhood, wearing gloves, pours hot wax on his hand as taking part in a traditional annual procession in Seville, Spain, on March 23, 2016. #

Penitents of the “Cristo de las Injurias” brotherhood take part in the Procesion del Silencio, or Silence Procession, during Holy Week in Zamora, Spain, on March 23, 2016. #

More than 50 people, young and old, celebrate Easter by crossing the tidal causeway during the annual Christian pilgrimage on March 25, 2016, in Berwick Upon Tweed, England. Every year people of all ages, from all over the world and from all realms of Christian life walk together at Easter to Holy Island. #

Mexicans set fire to an effigy with the head of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on March 26, 2016, in Mexico City during Holy Week celebrations. For many years Mexicans have made cardboard figures representing all forms of evil, which are then torched commemorating the “Burning of Judas,” a tradition in which Mexicans torch effigies of the devil, politicians, and others they dislike on the eve of Easter Sunday. #

David, 6, a penitent boy of the San Bernardo brotherhood, before taking part in a procession during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain, on March 23, 2016. #

In this picture taken on Sunday, March 13, 2016, a young man spins a flaming old car tire on a metal chain, during a celebration marking the upcoming Clean Monday, the first day of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Christian church calendar, on the hills surrounding the village of Poplaca, Sibiu County, in the central Romanian Transylvania region. Romanian villagers set light to piles of used tires and lit fires in the Transylvanian hills in a ritual that marks the beginning of Orthodox Lent before Easter. #

A masked Filipino penitent lies face down on a road while praying after performing self-flagellation, a form of bodily penance to atone for one’s sins, on Maundy Thursday in Mandaluyong, Manila, on March 24, 2016. #

A priest stands in the church building in Kibera as members of the Legio Maria African Mission church make a procession marking Good Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 25, 2016. Legio Maria is an African-initiated church and new religious movement among particularly the Luo people of western Kenya, initiated by repeated appearances of a mystic woman to several Roman Catholic members delivering messages about the incarnation of the son of God as a black man. #

A performer from the Paso Blanco, or White Group, poses for a portrait as he prepares his demon makeup before the Holy Friday biblical parade on March 25, 2016 in Lorca, in Murcia Province, Spain. Lorca's parades recreate biblical scenes. They are well known for their horse-chariot races and their handmade embroidered cloaks. #

A woman wearing a traditional “Mantilla” coverchief stands during the Gitanos, or The Gypsy, brotherhood procession on March 20, 2016 in Ronda, Spain, during Holy Week. #

Residents carry an idol of Virgin Mary to the church in a pedicab in preparation for the Good Friday procession during Holy Week celebration in Gasan, Marinduque in central Philippines, on March 25, 2016. #

Willy Salvador, 59, is nailed to a cross as part of his penitence during a reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for Good Friday celebrations ahead of Easter in the village of San Juan, Pampanga, north of Manila, on March 25, 2016. #

Catholics hold colored tape tied to a statue of Jesus Nazareno in a procession known as “Jesus Nazareno of the tapes” during Holy Week in Cot de Cartago, Costa Rica, on March 23, 2016. People tie ribbons to the statue to symbolize promises they make to Jesus. #

Lana Turner wears a bonnet during the Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival along 5th Avenue March 27, 2016 in New York City. The parade is a New York tradition dating back to the mid-1800s when the social elite would parade their new fashions down Fifth Avenue after attending Easter services in one of the Fifth Avenue churches. #