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Further reading: Filipino Black Nazarene devotion, is a cry for liberation From its arrival, the statue was considered miraculous after surviving an unscathed fire on May 31, 1606, that broke out ...

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As the pope himself noted, there is always the danger of reducing popular piety to external rituals and superstition ...

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 ...

The image was previously called the Black Nazarene, but church officials appealed ... crawled along the 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) route. The statue was finally brought inside the Minor Basilica ...

Millions of Filipino pilgrims swarm the Black Nazarene statue, seeking to touch it as it passes by. (Photo: Courtesy of Jahbee Cruz) The Black Nazarene, a wooden statue of Jesus Christ crowned ...

The Feast of the Black Nazarene is an annual event where Catholic devotees gather to commemorate the transfer of a statue depicting Jesus Christ’s 17th-century image to the Quiapo Church.

The late Filipino priest and theologian Sabino Vengco said in 2019 the statue’s revered black ... commemorates the transfer of the Black Nazarene from a church inside the old Spanish colonial ...

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 ...

that the widely revered statue is now preferably called “Jesus Nazareno” instead of “Black Nazarene.” “This move is meant to further focus the people on the holy name of our Lord [rather ...