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3 Kings Celebration in Juana Díaz

Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico has one of the oldest Three Kings parades and festivals in Latin America, as evidenced by the 30,000-plus crowd that attended last weekend.  Its observance of the Epiphany was initiated in 1884 by Father Valentín Echevarría.

Visitors and pilgrims from all over the world attend this event including Nicole Bloomfield of Chicago, who took this photo of the Three Kings statute.

The annual procession begins at the Museum of the Three Kings, where the statute is in place, and concludes at the Román Baldorioty de Castro Square, where a stage is set up with the Nativity scene. A Mass follows.

—Photos by Nicole Bloomfield