Señor de Los Milagros was taken in procession around the streets of Lima's Historic Center and paid homage by local and central government authorities along with regular citizens on Sunday.
Usually, every October, thousands of believers, most of them dressed in purple, fill the streets of downtown Lima to celebrate the Lord of Miracles.
The icon, mostly kept in Las Nazarenas temple, is venerated by a multitude of people bound together by the common hope that the Lord will protect them and given strength in their daily lives.
The Lord, also known as Christ of Pachacamilla, is Peru's most heavily attended religious festivity which is celebrated by all strata of society in homage to the image of crucified Christ.
The image is a replica of an old mural painted by a slave in the 17th century. It can be traced to the colonial era in which an Angolan slave drew the image of a black Jesus Christ on the walls of a hut in the plantation of Pachacamilla, near Lima.
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Published: 10/18/2015