Some religious rituals manage to survive in a secularized Europe - for instance, in Germany, where centuries-old processions are still held annually in many places. In these plays lay people usually act the roles of the Christian saints, depicting them in a manner as amateurish as it is theatrical. Georg Kürzinger photographed a number of these processions in Bavaria. He selected this state especially because by his own admission the present Pope, Benedict XVI, has the roots of his faith there.

Georg Kürzinger (b. 1957, Germany) was originally a medical researcher. He has been working as a freelance photographer for German magazines and publishers since 1990.