Filipino devotees attempt to touch the carriage carrying the statue of the Black Nazarene during the Feast of the Black Nazarene. Jose Monsieur Santos/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
More than 2.6 million devotees on Tuesday joined the largest religious procession in the predominantly Catholic Philippines, jostling with each other during the hours-long march in honor of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ.
The devotees, mostly wearing maroon and yellow shirts, walked barefoot in the procession called Traslacion – the highlight of the feast of the Black Nazarene, a life-size wooden statue of Jesus Christ crowned with thorns and bearing a cross.
