For Jasper Loayon, a devotee for over 11 years, protecting the Black Nazarene image is paramount. “It’s better this way so that the crowd will not try to tip the image over. Back then ...

The Black Nazarene, a 400-year-old ... Each pilgrim has his or her own story of grace and transformation. Among the crowd was 26-year-old British tourist Adan Jeffrey, who identifies as atheist ...

The Black Nazarene procession in the Philippines ... Ezra Acayan/Getty Images An early morning estimate Jan. 9 by police put the crowd at more than 830,000 people, which later swelled to 6.5 ...

MANILA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - More than six million Catholic devotees in the Philippines turned up for this year's procession to honour the Black Nazarene ... by police put the crowd at more than ...

The crowd continued to swell as the statue approached ... Catholic devotees perform during a blessing of the Black Nazarene replicas outside the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene, also known ...

Historically, the Traslacion commemorates the transfer of the Black Nazarene from its original ... to the Nazareno as ...

Black Nazarene devotees gathered at the Quirino ... its journey back to Quiapo Church immediately after the mass. The crowd, mostly wearing maroon and yellow shirts, quickly swarmed around it ...

following an open-air mass for the so-called Black Nazarene statue in a seaside park in Manila. An early morning estimate by police put the crowd at more than 830,000 people, excluding those ...

during the January 9 festivities,” he added. Nartatez also said that crowd estimates for the Black Nazarene activities held on Thursday, January 4, were around 15,000, compared to pre-pandemic figures ...

Up to 9,404 attendees were recorded from Monday to Tuesday. The crowd for today’s Feast of the Black Nazarene is expected to exceed the 6,113,598 devotees who joined the traslacion last year.

Catholic devotees ride on vehicles with their replicas of the Black Nazarene during the blessing of replicas in front of the Quiapo church in Manila on Jan 4, 2024, ahead of the annual religious ...