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Reuters/Pilar Olivares

Believers toss flowers and balloons over the procession of Peru's most-revered Catholic icon, the Lord of the Miracles (Purple Christ), in central Lima, on October 18, 2008. Thousands of Roman Catholics make the annual procession through the streets to mark the anniversary of an 18th-century earthquake that destroyed Lima, but left a painting of the Purple Christ intact.
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