Police reported 604 people suffering minor injuries as of Thursday afternoon. The statue of Jesus carrying the cross was brought to the Philippines from Mexico on a galleon in 1606 by Spanish ...
The Feast of Jesus Nazareno, or the Black Nazarene, commemorates the transfer of the life-sized statue to its current home at Quiapo Church in Manila. The centuries-old image carrying a cross is ...
life-size statue of Jesus Christ carrying a black wooden cross. Millions of Filipino Catholics join the march every year to see and touch Jesus Nazareno, believed to be a source of countless ...
A map of the proposed statues. “The stations of the cross are 14 significant points in Jesus Christ’s crucifixion scene and leading up to that crucifixion scene,” said Father Jake Schneider.
Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries-old statue of ... life-sized image of Jesus Christ bearing down a cross, as devotees ...
THIS year's "Traslacion," or the annual procession of the Black Nazarene — the statue of Jesus of Nazareth carrying his cross toward Calvary for his crucifixion — again reminded us of the serious ...