Quiapo Church records over 6 million devotees at Nazarene feast
Catholic devotees jostle with each other as they try to touch a glass-covered carriage carrying the Black Nazarene during an annual religious procession in Manila on Jan. 9, 2024. (Photo by TED ALJIBE / Agence France-Presse)
MANILA, Philippines — Quiapo Church recorded a total count of over six million devotees who took part in various activities to mark the Feast of the Black Nazarene on Tuesday.
The exact figure is 6,113,598 devotees, totaled from all records at 7:44 p.m. when the Nazarene was returned to the church.
The final count of the devotees who participated in Traslacion is 3,227,090, more than half of the Quiapo Church’s earlier crowd estimate at 6.5 million.
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Meanwhile, the final number of devotees gathered at Quiapo Church for the Fiesta Masses and the arrival of the Black Nazarene totaled 1,947,508.
A total of 939,000 devotees gathered at Quirino Grandstand to take part in the vigil on the eve of the Black Nazarene feast until the start of the Traslacion.
The feast officially concluded after the last Fiesta Mass at 11 p.m.
