In Taxco, Mexico the parades and ceremonies of Holy Week are intricate and have gained international reputation. Among Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, there are ten most important processions, six during the late afternoon and four during the daytime. The majorities of processions are about two and a half kilometers long and take about two hours to complete. These tributes date back to at least 1622 when they were begun in the atrium of the Church of the Ex monastery of San Bernadino de Siena. Now these processions and ceremonies center of the Santa Prisca Church.

They begin on Palm Sunday, when sellers, typically from the tiny outlying township of Tlamacazapa, crowd in the region of the church to sell palm leaves woven into complex designs. Nearly all designs are variety of a crucified Christ however there are others, like floral designs, too. A wooden statue of Christ on a donkey leaves an additional distant village, Tehuilotepec, and marches into Taxco to appear to the Santa Prisca Church with a great deal trumpet blast.

The initial sign of the parade is a large number of kids on bicycles, each one with palm leaves attached to the front of the bicycle. After that come drummers and populace wearing clothes as the Twelve Apostles, walking barefoot on the road. At the end comes the statue of Christ, with a covering of flowers and palms, which is bounded by a crowd of people waving palms to be sprinkled by sacred water by the priests.

The morning is Maundy Thursday is devoted to leisure of the Garden of Gethsemane in the frontage entrance of the Church of Santa Prisca, made with laurel branches, flowers, imprisoned birds and a statue of Jesus. In the afternoon, the silence is broken by men wearing clothes as Roman soldiers finding for Jesus, as he has been ruling to death. A townsperson performing Judas Iscariot also wanders the streets, with oily hair, a yellow tunic and rattling thirty pieces of silver.

The Jesus statue in the Garden is restored by one depicted blindfolded and with hands vault behind its backside. This sculpture is taken to a “jail.” Penitentes and the Roman armed forces watch over this Christ sculpture all nighttime throwing chains. The “Procession of the Christs” also occurs this night with over 40 representations of the crucified Christ wandering the streets til morning..