Traslacion 2024: A spectacular display of Filipinos’ faith and piety
Millions joined this year’s mass procession, the first after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Millions joined this year’s mass procession, the first after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The original photo shows devotees of the Black Nazarene crossing the Jones Bridge in Manila.
Amid strong possibility of a terrorist attack didn’t dampen the fervor of thousands of devotees who participated in the Traslacion of the Black Nazarene in Cagayan de Oro City.
Podcast and photos by LOIS JOY GUINMAPANG THE annual Feast of the Black Nazarene culminates on Wednesday with the grand translacion procession that will bring the life-sized dark wooden sculpture of the Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno from the Quirino Grandstand back to its home at Quiapo Church. The celebration started days earlier. On Monday, devotees
Text and photos by VINCENT GO
IT was the longest procession to date in the history of Quiapo Church’s centuries-old Black Nazarene.
It took almost 22 hours for the life-size wooden sculpture of a dark-colored Jesus carrying the cross to return to church after leaving the Quirino Grandstand at the Rizal Park Monday morning. It was already quarter past 5 a.m. of Tuesday when it entered Quiapo Church as millions of devotees who believe the icon to be miraculous participated in the annual feast of the Black Nazarene.