Thousands attend religious processions in Malaga

Several processions were held in the streets of Malaga on Thursday evening as part of the Catholic Holy Week. The statue of Jesus Christ of Good Death is one of the most important for the Spanish Legion troops, an elite unit in the country's armed forces, who joined the procession through the streets of Malaga.

The statue is also known as the Christ of Mena, named after the creator of a sculpture believed to have been carved in 1660, on which the statue is based.Thousands also watched the statue of the Virgin of Solitude being borne on the shoulders of penitents in another procession going through the main street of the city later Thursday.

Thousands of people came from all over Spain to attend the religious processions of the Holy Week, leading up to Easter Sunday. This year, over 200 legionaries from Ceuta, a Spanish autonomous city in North Africa, took part in the procession.