This Jesus was found in the sea in the 14th century and there are a variety of legends available about lights surrounding the floating cross etc. He is therefore worshipped by the fishermen.
I'm not entirely sure why the Confrereie (religious brotherhood who look a little bit too much like the Ku Klux Klan) have gotten involved by dressing up like this, but I'll endeavor to find out.
They're penitents. The catholics love this sort of thing. During saints week here the streets are full of scary looking hooded men. Think the KKK might have mis-appropriated this tradition for their own flithy ends. Quel surprise! Like the symbolic irony of these white hooded pentients carrying a black Jesus.
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