Uploaded April 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
To read the entire story about my visit to Copper Canyon, Mexico, go to holeinthedonut.com/2010/04/20/copper-canyon-mexico-semana-santa-cerocahui/, and if you enjoyed this video, please consider subscribing to my YouTube channel.
In the tiny village of Cerocahui, deep within Mexico's Copper Canyon, faithful worshipers re-enact the twelve stations of the cross on Good Friday, 2010. Although Cerocahui has only about 900 residents, the pageant attracts of attendees from the surrounding towns and countryside. Participants include many indigenous Tarahumara Indians, who add their interesting touches to the ceremony, such as the cymbals mounted atop the long wooden poles. From the late 1600's to the Jesuit missionaries in the mid-1700's were tremendously successful in their efforts to convert Tarahumara to Catholicism, partially because they allowed the indigenous populations to incorporate many of their pagan/animistic beliefs into Catholicism.
To read the entire story about my visit to Copper Canyon, Mexico, go to holeinthedonut.com/2010/04/20/copper-canyon-mexico-semana-santa-cerocahui/, and if you enjoyed this video, please consider subscribing to my YouTube channel.
In the tiny village of Cerocahui, deep within Mexico's Copper Canyon, faithful worshipers re-enact the twelve stations of the cross on Good Friday, 2010. Although Cerocahui has only about 900 residents, the pageant attracts of attendees from the surrounding towns and countryside. Participants include many indigenous Tarahumara Indians, who add their interesting touches to the ceremony, such as the cymbals mounted atop the long wooden poles. From the late 1600's to the Jesuit missionaries in the mid-1700's were tremendously successful in their efforts to convert Tarahumara to Catholicism, partially because they allowed the indigenous populations to incorporate many of their pagan/animistic beliefs into Catholicism.
