Passion Photos

The Passion - Good Friday, Gulu

Students from various schools carry the cross from station to station.

The Passion - Good Friday, Gulu

St. Joseph's Cathedral.

We began at St. Philip's Cathedral (Anglican).

Jesus gets the crown of thorns.

Each school has a unique uniform, so one could tell who was up.

The mob, coming up the road from Mama Cave school towards the diocesan office.

Can you see the end of this crowd???

Jesus is mocked.

Jesus receives a proper beating, from palm or other branches. The blows could be heard from the back of the crowd.

Coming to St. Joseph's Cathedral (Catholic).

St. Joseph's

Passing through the Catholic compound, towards the schools and clinics.

Vicar of St. Philip's, Rev. John Ochola reads the verse for this station over a loudspeaker, we're probably somewhere in the middle of the crowd.

To St. Mary's - Lacor Hospital. This was a place for night commuters to sleep when the LRA was still a threat.

Coming to the end.

Jesus is tied to the cross after further beatings.

The red stuff on the cross is Top Up, a popular ketchup subustitute.

Students from the Univ. of Tennessee and the Diocese of Eastern Tennessee arrive just after the end.

A memorial in Lacor Hospital for those who died treating patients during the Ebola outbreak of 2000.

The most impressive structure I've seen since I arrived in Uganda. It's not a mile from my home, but Easter was the first time I saw it.

It was built under the direction of the Comboni Brothers, Catholic missionaries to this area around the turn of the century.

It was built from local bricks by the congregants. Every Sunday people would come to church with bricks baked by the river, until they had enough.

This ceiling work was painted by an Acholi man sent to study art in Rome.

The Passion - Good Friday, Gulu