Festa de São Jorge/Ogum

Coinciding with Pesach this year was the week-long festival to São Jorge/Ogum, touted as Porto Alegre's second-largest religious festival next to that of Nossa Senhora dos Navagentes/Iemanja. Public events included religious processions, blessings, Catholic masses, Umbanda ceremonies, informational forums, and the perhaps-not-so-coincidental victory of the futebol team Internacional (a.k.a., colorados) against Paraná in the Copo do Brasil.

Other noteworthy sightings included an awkwardly small São Jorge/Ogum riding on top a fire engine

and in person riding among gaúcho Calvary in an Umbanda parade