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No Traslacion this year
By Fernan Angeles FOR the first time in so many years, the annual feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo Manila would not be drawing millions of pilgrims as the traditional “traslacion” had just been scrapped amid the continued threat of the virus from Wuhan, China. Quiapo Church officials made the announcement on the cancellation…
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Quiapo Church prohibits kissing of sacred images
By Fernan Angeles DESPITE limited allowable capacity inside worship places, implementing physical distancing among thousands of church goers is quite difficult, said Quiapo Church rector Monsignor Hernando Coronel. Part of the measure to keep the virus from spreading is to prohibit the traditional kissing of the images inside the church, Coronel added. Coronel lamented that…