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Last year, around 1.5 million devotees joined the procession for the Feast of the Black Nazarene, the patron of Quiapo, which is celebrated every January 9. During the procession, the life-sized image of a dark-colored Christ is placed in a carroza pulled by two 50-meter-long abaca ropes and is brought to various barangays (villages) in the Quiapo district and then to the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research