Black Nazarene

Cardinal Jose F. Advincula of Manila Archdiocese urges the Catholics to strive for truth, justice, and peace in the world, during the Black Nazarene Feast day Mass on January 9. On January 8, the six kilometres “Walk of Faith” began at 1 AM at the Quirino Grandstand and ended at 4 AM at the Quiapo Church to commemorate the Feast of the Black Nazarene.

"All the activities of the festivity will resume except the traditional procession, or the traslacion," Father Valdez said.

Despite health warnings, hundreds of thousands of Filipino Catholics went out of their homes in Manila on Jan. 9, to venerate a centuries-old wooden statue of the Black Nazarene.