Friday, 14 March 2014

Catholic survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan revisited


The survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan marching in a religious procession with icons and crucifixes in Tolosa on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte one week after the Super Typhoon devastated the area in November 2013



 The women from Lopez's original photograph are reunited: (left to right) Virginia Piedad, Elsie Indic, Ma. Catalina Consuelo, and Maricel Martinez, on road where they marched last November. Photograph: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images



Returning to their destroyed village after the catastrophic typhoon that killed thousands in the Philippines last year, the Catholic women, holding the religious artifacts have vowed a lifelong sacrifice to thank God for saving them. Photograph: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images

The four women sit for a photograph inside their chapel in Tolosa, Leyte island. Photograph: Ted 
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