Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries ... of maroon and gold and swarmed the “Black Nazarene,” a life-sized image of Jesus ...

MANILA, Philippines — On Jan. 9, more than 8 million mostly barefoot Filipino devotees filled the streets of Manila for the annual “Black Nazarene” procession, one of the world’s largest ...

The Black Nazarene procession in the Philippines, one of the largest religious devotions in the world, returned this year to its traditional size for the first time since the beginning of the ...

The Black Nazarene will then be carried in a procession ... a fire on the ship that charred the originally white skin. The Philippines is the third most populous Catholic country in the world.

Philippines' Black Nazarene Procession Draws Hundreds of Thousands of Devotees By Jay Ereno MANILA (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the ...

"I tell him (Black Nazarene) all my problems ... blackened image was due to a fire on the ship that carried it to the Philippines from Mexico in the early 17th century. The procession, called ...

MANILA — Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries ... maroon and gold and swarmed the "Black Nazarene", a life-sized image ...

Hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Black Nazarene are currently participating in the Traslación ... of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a ...

It is not known why the statue, which was carved in Mexico and brought to the Philippines in the early 17th century, turned black. But a Philippine priest, Msgr. Sabino Vengco, claimed the image ...