(8 Jan 2025)
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Manila, Philippines – 9 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of audience waving cloths above heads and chanting
2. Various of glass box containing Black Nazarene statue of Jesus moving through crowd
3. Close of statue
4. Pan right from statue surrounded by officials directing crowd (in yellow) to crowd throwing cloths and young men attempting to climb onto cross
5. Close of young men climbing onto cross
6. Various of procession moving through crowd
STORYLINE:
A massive crowd of Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in an annual procession in the Philippines’ capital that paraded a centuries-old black statue of Jesus.
Considered a major annual Catholic event in Asia, the procession typically draws massive numbers of largely poor Catholics who pray for the sick and for a better life.
Worshippers often require medical attention after the procession, many with bruises but some with more serious injuries sustained while attempting to climb onto the statue.
For only the second year, the statue was encased in glass to protect it from damage as the crowd pressed around the slow-moving carriage.
The life-size statue known as the Black Nazarene and showing Jesus carrying the cross was brought in the 16th century from Mexico on a galleon in 1606 by Spanish missionaries.
The ship that carried it caught fire, but the charred statue survived. Many devotees believe the statue’s endurance, from fires and earthquakes through the centuries and intense bombings during World War II, is a testament to its miraculous powers.
The spectacle reflects the unique brand of Catholicism, which includes folk superstitions, in Asia’s largest Catholic nation. Dozens of Filipinos have nailed themselves to crosses on Good Friday in another unusual tradition to emulate Christ’s suffering that draws huge crowds of worshippers and tourists each year.
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