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LOOK: Misamis Oriental's White Nazarene

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MANILA - As people from different parts of the country prepare for the traslacion of the Black Nazarene in Manila on Saturday, residents of Naawan, Misamis Oriental have also started their novena for the feast of their White Nazarene.<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2015/regions/white-nazarene.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">The White Nazarene in Naawan, Misamis Oriental. Photo courtesy of Angelo Andrade, ABS-CBN News Northern Mindanao</div></figcaption></figure></div>Vicenta Billones is one of the devotees of the White Nazarene. She has been a devotee since 1975.According to Billones, her devotion helped keep her and her family healthy and strong.The image was donated by the Dadole Family to St. Isidore Parish Church of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente.According to Zyla Flor, her father, Gerardo Dadole, ordered the image from Cebu in 1960.Filipino Catholics celebrate the feast of the Black Nazarene, but people from other countries, and members of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, have a devotion to the White Nazarene.Fr. Noel Ganapin, parish priest of St. Isidore Parish, believes that the color of the image is not important, as long as people do good deeds.The parish celebrates the feast of the White Nazarene every last Sunday of January. -report from Angelo Andrade, ABS-CBN News Northern Mindanao

MANILA - As people from different parts of the country prepare for the traslacion of the Black Nazarene in Manila on Saturday, residents of Naawan, Misamis Oriental have also started their novena for the feast of their White Nazarene.