Nazarene march: 227 hurt

[Milliardo]

Quite late to put this news up, but hopefully it still counts:

**Nazarene March: 227 Hurt

**It was one of the largest crowds ever to attend the procession for the Black Nazarene, and also one of the most unruly.

Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales and 1,500 Manila policemen could not control a group of devotees that disrupted the Mass at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park yesterday as the crowd engaged in a mad scramble for the rope used to pull the carriage that bore the image of the Black Nazarene.

Police estimated the crowd that went to the park at about a million. During the day-long procession to the Quiapo Church, at least 227 people suffered afflictions including exhaustion, dehydration and hypertension in the crush of the crowd.

Full story: ph.news.yahoo.com/star/20090109/tph-nazarene-227-hurt-541dfb4.html

 

[FickleFreckled]

Here’s a Wikipedia page on the Black Nazarene and the history.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Nazarene

 

[gam197]

How can they use only the original body image??

wikipilipinas…

Recently, however, in 1998, a replica of the original Black Nazarene was first paraded due to the repeated damages inflicted on the statue like the left cheek that was shot by a member of Iglesia ni Cristo(INC) . Today the head and the cross stays on the Altar Mayor of the Minor Basilica, and the original body image of the Black Nazarene is used in the processions. Other, even smaller replica can be found in other churches.