Black Nazarene: Thousands join annual statue parade in Manila

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Black Nazarene: Thousands join annual statue parade in Manila

The annual procession sees huge crowds try to get close to the historic statue of Jesus Christ.
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Gigantic processions, the Sun also has an article. I won’t link to that per some other things that appear in that newspaper.

Thread from a previous year, in fact, there are quite a few forums threads on this topic in the past.
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Black Nazarene procession draws seven million in the Philippines Catholic News
A Manila procession of the life-sized wooden statue of the Black Nazarene drew about seven million Filipinos on Jan. 9, a higher turnout than last year. Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales of Manila explained how participants identify their daily struggles with the wounds and tribulations experienced by Jesus. “The image of the Black Nazarene is the image of suffering, struggling that is why people like Him… they see in the cross a picture of them,” Cardinal Rosales told reporters. But he a…
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Feast of the Black Nazarene (Jan 09) Spirituality
businessweek.com/news/2012-01-09/philippine-leader-warns-of-attack-during-nazarene-festival.html rcam.org/novena/blacknazarene.htm powerful novena to the Black Nazarene
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