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epa05093506 Filipino devotees jostle to reach the statue of the Black Nazarene during the procession in Manila, Philippines, 09 January 2016. More than a million barefoot devotees joined the Philippines' largest religious procession honouring a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ, officials said. The feast of the Black Nazarene is one of the most celebrated religious events in the predominantly Catholic Philippines, where more than 80 per cent of the population professes the faith. The wooden statue, crowned with thorns and bearing a cross, is believed to have been brought from Mexico to Manila in 1606 by Spanish missionaries. The ship that carried it caught fire, but the charred statue survived and named the Black Nazarene. EPA/FRANCIS R. MALASIG