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More than 1 million devotees welcome back Black Nazarene at Quiapo Church

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<div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS/videos/280985612612966" data-width="auto"> </div><p>MANILA - The statue of the Black Nazarene returned to its home in the Quiapo Church around 2 a.m. Thursday, some 21 hours after the procession began from the Quirino Grandstand early Wednesday.</p><p>More than 1 million people welcomed the Black Nazarene at the Quiapo church <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/09/19/traslacion-2019-start-draws-hundreds-of-thousands" target="_blank">early Thursday</a>, according to official police estimates.</p><p>Millions of barefooted devotees joined the annual procession of the Black Nazarene, one of the world&#x27;s biggest displays of Catholic devotion and showcases the Philippines&#x27; status as the Church&#x27;s bastion in Asia.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/09/19/hordes-hoping-for-miracle-throng-philippine-catholic-procession">Hordes hoping for miracle throng Traslacion</a></li></ul><p>Last year&#x27;s Traslacion took <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/10/18/black-nazarene-returns-to-quiapo-church-after-22-hour-procession" target="_blank">22 hours</a> to weave through the streets of Manila and return the 400-year-old statue to the Quiapo Church. </p><p>Devotees, meanwhile, were urged to &quot;clean as you go&quot; and to properly dispose their garbage to help keep the cleanliness of the restored Pasig River.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/09/19/appalled-pasig-river-rehab-agency-to-black-nazarene-devotees-clean-as-you-go">&#x27;Appalled&#x27; Pasig River rehab agency to Black Nazarene devotees: &#x27;Clean as you go&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos in other parts of the country also joined the religious celebration.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/09/19/traslacion-ginanap-din-sa-ilang-mga-probinsiya">Traslacion ginanap din sa ilang mga probinsiya</a></li></ul>

<p>MANILA - The statue of the Black Nazarene returned to its home in the Quiapo Church around 2 a.m. Thursday, some 21 hours after the procession began from the Quirino Grandstand early Wednesday.</p>

MANILA - The statue of the Black Nazarene returned to its home in the Quiapo Church around 2 a.m. Thursday, some 21 hours after the procession began from the Quirino Grandstand early Wednesday.