I like trading cards. When I saw "Holy Cards" on sale in Malaga, I had to buy a pack out of sheer curiosity. I felt the frisson of excitement opening them, same as I do with football stickers.
You get 7 cards in a pack for a Euro. I got some big names.
I got Jesus
Jesus
Jesus on a donkey
Mary
These two things (your guess is as good as mine)
And the equivalent of a team badge
There are also binders for sale to keep all your cards in. I didn't buy one.
I also bought a packet of La Liga trading cards. It also only cost €1 but there was one less card and zero Jesuses in it.
Malaga had several shops selling Catholic religious merch.
They all had little figures of people in the traditional garb worn during the big Easter Parades every year. The robes and pointy hoods are, well, let's be honest, creepy-looking and makes it look like the Ku Klux Klan are coming to town.
They do their best to make the hooded guys look cute. It doesn't really work.
There were also some life-size effigies around. It wouldn't persuade me to go into a shop if I saw one of these. But it takes all sorts!
One day I'd like to go back to Malaga. But maybe not at Easter.
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