Though the ship carrying it caught fire, the charred statue survived and was named the “Black Nazarene.” Now enshrined at Quiapo Church ... in the procession and Holy Mass.

As the pope himself noted, there is always the danger of reducing popular piety to external rituals and superstition ...

Thousands of devoted Catholics gather at Quiapo Church to welcome back the Black Nazarene after a six-kilometer grand procession that saw thousands more swarm the streets of Manila for a glimpse or a ...

Coco Martin’s devotion traces back more than a decade ago at a time when he was earnestly praying for a job, any job, to the Catholic icon.

Thousands of worshippers joined a mass as the religious Feast of the Black Nazarene ... The holy image was paraded throughout the city before arriving at the Quiapo Church. The Feast of Jesus ...

aunts and parents started the Feast of the Black Nazarene in Sydney. “In 1995, my uncle Dr Gus Tablante requested a life-sized replica of the Poong Nazareno from Quiapo Church,” shares the ...