Feast of the Black Nazarene in Holy Land Sacrifice Valley

Ave Maria Purissima!

The celebration of the Feast of the Black Nazarene last January 9, 2010 was the second time when and where the true and only Church and Congregation of Beloved INGKONG were in the Holy Land, Sacrifice VAlley; being the All Saints Day as the first of its coming from about three to four years of holding the kaganapan in EDSA.





The following pictures are courtesy of Rev Fr Nomer, OMHS, some of which can also be found in his blogspot http://delcarmen-r11.blogspot.com/

The starting and end point of the Holy Procession is at the OMHS Convent near the Lourdes Grotto, Nature's Basilica and Mariapolis, and the hallowed tomb of St Maria Virginia. Then, they went straight to the Mount Calvary and did the 14 stations of the cross.





































Unverified information about the Black Nazarene image celebrated in Quiapo Manila:



The Black Nazarene is a life-sized, dark-colored, wooden sculpture of a “black” Jesus Christ carrying a cross held to be miraculous by many Filipino devotees. Its original carver is an anonymous Aztec carpenter and the image was transported by a galleon from Acapulco, Mexico by the first group of Augustinian Recollect friars sent by Spain. Legend has it that the Black Nazarene was charred black because of a fire that broke out on the galleon during its trip to Manila from Mexico. It arrived on May 31, 1606, in this form and has always been depicted as such.

It was transferred from its old home from San Nicolas de Tolentino in Intramuros to its present site in Quiapo, Manila at the Saint John de Baptist Church (Now called Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene) in 1787 by then Archbishop of Manila, Basilio Sancho de Santa Junta y Rufina.