Technology Captures the Black Nazarene

Posted on January 11th, 2010. Written by Rico.

If you’re wondering how a religious procession held last January 9 can kill two people and injure 350, see just how many people were trying to move an image of Christ carrying the cross, in this video.

Believe it or not, over a million people joining this yearly event—the procession of the Black Nazarene in Manila’s Quiapo—is normal. The Philippine National Red Cross however braced itself for more casualties this year, as they expected more people from all over the Philippines to join the procession. Seemed last year’s disasters like Typhoon Ondoy got more Filipinos looking for divine favor.

2 Nazarene devotees reported dead, 350 treated by PNRC

Az Video Blog : Quiapo Church Feast of the Black Nazarene 2010

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Rico

Rico Mossesgeld is the founding editor of Technograph. Learn more about him at rico.mossesgeld.com/about.

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yey! tnx for the feature!
Alan

Hoping that soon people would be joining the procession “virtually”, via virtual presence, or any other hot technologies the future might bring.
Ricky

Why are some people hung to false hopes and let these happen…

(http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100109-246352/2-deaths-mar-Nazarene-procession)

According to news as of now there are 3 deaths related to the feast.

3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. 4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter. 5 Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.” 6 No one is like you, O Lord; you are great, and your name is mighty in power. 7 Who should not revere you, O King of the nations? This is your due. Among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you. 8 They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols. 9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. What the craftsman and goldsmith have made is then dressed in blue and purple– all made by skilled workers. 10 But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath. 11 “Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.’ ” 12 But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. 13 When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. 14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. His images are a fraud; they have no breath in them. 15 They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish. 16 He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including Israel, the tribe of his inheritance– the LORD Almighty is his name.

Jeremiah 10:3to16
Ricky

…well now they bless gadgets as well…

http://dailycontributor.com/church-blesses-mobiles-phones-laptops/10503/
Zeke

Pretty sure its was a huge traffic jam in the Quiapo area.
Zeke

I wish Moses or Elijah is still alive. Wonder how would he feel when he see this ???