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Show more Show less The black statue of Jesus of Nazarene leaves a park following a mass during an annual religious procession in Manila on Thursday Devotees carry the religious icon during a ...

The image was previously called the Black Nazarene, but church officials ... minor injuries as of Thursday afternoon. The statue of Jesus carrying the cross was brought to the Philippines from ...

(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 on Thursday of a centuries-old statue ... the "Black Nazarene", a life-sized image of Jesus Christ bearing ...

Devotees climb the carriage of the Black Nazarene to touch it and wipe a piece of cloth on the glass covering the statue during the Traslacion in honor of the Black Nazarene in Palanca, Manila, on ...

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 ...

Barefoot men and women in maroon shirts – the color of the robe that covers the black, wooden Jesus the Nazarene statue – scrambled to grab the rope used to draw the life-sized religious icon ...