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Despite the recent reinstitution of church structures, unofficial places of worship have retained their popularity and are visited both en masse during seasonal pilgrimages and individually in times of difficulty and need.

Armenian Catholic churches are characterized by architectural simplicity. Most were built in the second half of the 19th century, after Armenian Catholics moved to the areas they now inhabit from Western Armenia, their historic homeland, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire. The temples are usually hall churches, small in size, with stone walls and wooden roof structure. These humble buildings were erected from the meager funds of local rural communities. They traditionally have two entrances — one opposite the altar, the other on the side. In places where the old customs have been kept

After a period of persecutions in 1920-1930s, the Armenian Catholic Church was outlawed in Soviet Armenia and Georgia, and its believers were denied access to religious services. In Georgia, however, where a few local communities managed to save their churches from closure, people still gathered for common prayer. Since the late 1980s, when first Catholic priests returned to Armenia and Georgia, a difficult process of reestablishing parish communities and reviving devotional practices (such as receiving the sacraments or praying the Rosary) has started. Praying the Rosary is one of the most

Malolos is home to a revered image of the Santo Niño, but this feast is also notable because more than 200 other images of the Santo Niño, some traditional and some quite imaginative, are processed along with it.

A festive procession followed by high Mass celebrate the Santo Niño, the child Jesus, in Bustos, Bulacan on the third Sunday of January. Though not as large as the celebrations in Cebu and Malolos, the joyful feast in Bustos is important to local residents.

Outside the basilica year-round, tig sinulog women in yellow blouses and red skirts sell candles and pray to the Santo Niño on behalf of others, taking on the roles of “the spirit medium, the benign counselor, the friend, the grandmother, the servant, the withdrawn laborer.”

Every January in the central Philippines city of Cebu, 1.5 to 3 million people gather for a series of Masses, parades, water and land processions, beauty contests, street dances and concerts, fireworks and other events that celebrate the feast of the Santo Niño — the Holy Child — of Cebu. Drawing visitors from throughout the region, the city doubles in size for the celebration, which is the biggest event of the year in Cebu. The feast, known today as Sinulog, extends more than two weeks, culminating on the weekend of the third Sunday of January, and is one of the most well attended Catholic

Ronda, an ancient striking hilltop city of just under 35,000 people in Andalucia, in the south of Spain, has its own tradition of Holy Week processions marking the Passion of Jesus, dating back to the mid-16th century, less than 100 years after the city was recaptured from Muslim control. Though not carried out on as grand a scale as in Seville , the Holy Week processions are, given the proportionate sizes of the cities, as significant as in Seville. Ronda even has its own stylistic “school” of design for the images and pasos , the elaborate, carried platforms that bear the images. In 2016

Confraternities are extraordinarily important in the life of the Church in Seville. There are nearly 600 canonically recognized confraternities and brotherhoods in the Diocese of Seville. Seventy-three of these are Penitential confraternities that process in the city of Seville during Holy Week, or in the days before it.

Two forms of music, marches and saetas — musical forms that are not, in other parts of the world, readily associated with Catholic religious music — are integral parts of Semana Santa processions in Seville.