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  • 3/28/2024
Catholics in the Ecuadorian capital Quito marked Holy Wednesday (March 27) with an ancient ritual dating back to the Roman Empire, as one of many Easter festivities held during Holy Week in the Andean country.

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00:00 Catholics in the Ecuadorian capital Quito marked Holy Wednesday with an ancient ritual
00:07 dating back to the Roman Empire as one of many Easter festivities held during Holy Week
00:13 in the Andean country.
00:15 Clergymen donning long black cloaks took part in the "Dragging of the Capes" ritual at the
00:20 Quito Metropolitan Cathedral, the city's main cathedral.
00:24 Each cloak has a long tail that drags during the ceremony, which clergymen say represents
00:29 the people's sins that they carry.
00:31 Throughout the ceremony, the local archbishop waves a black flag with a red cross to symbolize
00:37 mourning and Jesus' blood.
00:39 The dragging of black cloak tails was a Roman ceremony held to mourn battle losses.
00:44 Eventually, the Catholic Church adopted it to observe Jesus' death.
00:48 The ritual arrived from Spain around the 16th century.
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