Tag: popular religiosity
Thousands of Filipino Catholics join ‘Walk of Faith’ to honor Black...
Father Jun Sescon, Quiapo church rector, invited the devotees to “conversion” and into a “deeper relationship with Jesus”
Photos’: Walk of Faith’
Close to a hundred thousand devotees of the Black Nazarene of Manila joined a ‘Walk of Faith’ before dawn on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023
Photos: Filipino Catholics prepare for another ‘feast’
Filipino Catholics are getting ready for another religious festival with the blessing of replicas of the image of the “Black Nazarene”
Photos: Religious procession of image of Cebu’s ‘Nuestra Señora de Regla’
The celebration of the "feast" of the image every 21st of November usually attracts thousands of devotees in the central Philippines
Photos: Solemnity of Our Lady of Peñafrancia
A much-awaited fluvial procession was held on September 17, in Naga City, to mark the “Solemnity of Our Lady of Peñafrancia”
Photos: ‘Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia’
The Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia is believed to be a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that is venerated in Naga City since 1710.
Photos: Celebrating faith in a southern Philippine town
The sleepy little town of Dapitan in the southern Philippines comes to life every 24th of July to celebrate their faith
Photos: ‘Taong Putik’: Filipino farmers express faith the ‘muddy’ way
People wake up before sunrise, cover their bodies with mud from the surrounding rice fields, and their faces with dried leaves
Photos: ‘Penitensya’ (A Holy Week devotion in the Philippines)
Penitents consider these acts to be mortification of the flesh to ask forgiveness for sins, to fulfil a vow, or to express gratitude
Photos: Faithful in Philippines’ Bulacan province ‘arrest’ Jesus
Self-flagellations and crucifixions are some of the popular forms of rituals that Filipino Catholics participate in during the Holy Week
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