For Mexican Americans in the Pilsen area, Viernes Santo (GoodFriday) always seems to come to life.
Roman soldiers, a solemn crowd and a man with a cross havewalked "the Stations of the Cross" down the streets of the South Sidecommunity for the last 16 years.
It happened again on Friday in a procession called the Live Wayof the Cross.
A tall, thin man dressed as Jesus Christ, with white robes, acrown of thorns and carrying a 10-foot wooden cross, made his waywest on 18th Street surrounded by more than a half dozen soldiers.
The readings of the "Stations of the Cross," or stops drawn frombiblical accounts of Jesus' forced march through the streets …
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