PHILIPPINES: MANILA: PROCESSION IN HONOUR OF THE BLACK NAZARENE

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18.5 هزار بار بازدید - 9 سال پیش - (9 Jan 1997) Eng/Taga/Nat
(9 Jan 1997) Eng/Taga/Nat

In the Philippines, thousands of Catholic devotees participated in the procession  honouring the country's most venerated icon, the Black Nazarene on Thursday.

Every year, this procession attracts a scrum of people desperate to receive divine  intervention for their needs.

Thousands gathered outside the Church of St. John the Baptist in the Philippines  capital of Manila on Thursday.

The Black Nazarene statue is brought out of its shrine every year, and multitudes of its  devotees want to take part in the procession to honour the feast day.

The only other time the statue appears outside the church is Good Friday.

Disregarding the heat, overcrowding and the risk of being trampled upon people go to  any length just to touch the image of the Suffering Christ or even the rope that leads the  statue through the procession.

This year, disaster was narrowly avoided when the float, carrying the icon, collapsed but  within minutes it was back on its way through the crowd.

The icon is one of the most venerated in the country. Devotees believe this statue,  brought to Manila from Mexico in the 17th Century, has miraculous powers.

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"This devotion is widely propagated.  Secondly, the fervent faith of the people towards  Christ, the Suffering Christ, and thirdly, we cannot deny the fact that there are so many  favours that are being granted through the intercession of Jesus the Nazarene."
SUPER CAPTION: Father Wilfredo Ipapo, Parochial Vicar, St. John the Baptist Church

The statue was created by an unknown Mexican sculptor and was brought to the  Philippines by a Recollect priest in 1606.

The Church of St. John the Baptist became home to the Black Nazarene in 1787. For  more than two centuries now, devotion to Him has not waned.  Instead, more and more  come every year.

SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog)
"This is our way of thanking him because we escaped death because I had a heart  ailment and my husband had an accident, then he had typhoid."
SUPER CAPTION: Flora Urbiztondo, Vox Pop    

And most of those who are here will return without failure next year to worship the Black  Nazarene.

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