Mexico's Day of the Dead celebrates life in 'another dimension'

Sr. Brenda Hernández, of the Mexico-based Daughters of Mary Immaculate of Guadalupe, poses in front of a Day of the Dead altar built by students at the Catholic Colegio Tepeyac Mexicano run by her order in Mexico City.

"It's a feast. But for me, it's one illuminated by faith," Sr. María Celina Mota Campos said. "I believe we can call it the feast of life, of life after death."

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