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 ...

The Black Nazarene procession in Manila ... sees devotees carry across Manila a replica of a famous life-size statue of Jesus carrying a black wooden cross. The Philippines and East Timor ...

(Photo: Courtesy of Jahbee Cruz) The Black Nazarene, a wooden statue of Jesus Christ crowned with thorns and bearing his cross, was brought to Manila from Mexico in 1606 by Spanish missionaries.

Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries-old statue ... swarmed the “Black Nazarene,” a life-sized image of Jesus Christ bearing ...

MANILA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines on Thursday of a centuries-old statue ... "Black Nazarene", a life-sized image ...

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle yesterday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual display of religious ...

Among the religious celebrations, the procession of the ‘Black Nazarene’ is one of the most famous and popular. The statue represents Jesus bent under the weight of the Cross. It was brought ...