Festival of the Good Death Celebrated in Bahia

CACHOEIRA, BRAZIL - AUGUST 16: People walk into a church during the Festival of the Good Death on August 16, 2014 in Cachoeira, Brazil. The Afro-Brazilian Sisterhood of the Good Death is made up of female descendants of slaves, all age 50 and over, and honors both Catholic traditions and Afro-Brazilian Candomble religious rites. The sisterhood is believed to be the oldest organization for women of African descent in the Americas. The state of Bahia received at least 1.2 million slaves from Africa and remains the most African of Brazilian states, where blacks make up around 80 percent of the population. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)