Millions of devotees reach out to the Black Nazarene at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila during its annual feast on January 9, 2019. The "Traslacion" or procession, which started early Wednesday, will bring the "black" Jesus Christ back to its home at the Parish of St. John the Baptist, popularly known as Quiapo Church, in Manila. The faithful believe that touching the statue of Christ is miraculous. PHOTO BY RUSSELL PALMA
THOUSANDS of devotees of the Black Nazarene began their procession from the Quirino Grandstand to its home in Quiapo Church in Manila early Wednesday in the annual religious event, which Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle said was a way of “honoring” Jesus Christ who was “devoted to the faithful first.”