ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月4日 04時12分

The first thing you need to know about Pilar Domínguez Muñoz is that she is alive. Pilar, pictured here in a coffin, being carried by pallbearers, was among 9 people who took part in an extraordinary funeral ritual, celebrated every July 29 in Santa Marta de Ribarteme, a village of a few hundred residents perched high in northwestern Spain. Morbid though it may seem, the festival is a celebration for those who’ve snatched life back from the jaws of death. It’s performed on the feast day of the local parish’s most important saint, Martha, whose brother Lazarus was raised from the dead when Jesus visited their home in the Bible’s account. Some devotees enact their own death after surviving a serious accident or illness, while others do so to thank the saint for saving a relative. Pilar was taking part for the second consecutive year because she wanted to show gratitude for her daughter’s improved health. Uxía suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease. “Last year, I was in my coffin and she was in her wheelchair, with both ankles broken,” Pilar told @ニューヨーク・タイムズ. “My daughter is walking today thanks to Santa Marta.” Visit the link in our profile to read more about this tiny Galician village where the living play dead for a day, and to see more photos by @Samuel_aranda13.

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