Nazareno
The Bible prohibits the faithful from making pictures of humans and from worshipping idols, as do the other two Abrahamic religions. The history of the Christian world has witnessed a few episodes of ‘iconoclasm’, movements to destroy statues: in the 8th and 9th centuries in Byzantium, and at the beginning of the 16th century in Europe, when the Protestants burnt statues and paintings in churches.
Goenawan Mohamad
January 11, 2021
Every January 9—except perhaps this time of Covid-19—hundreds of thousands of people crowd the streets of Manila. They move, tightly, waving white handkerchiefs, holding up maroon banners, crying “viva! viva!” and following for hours a black statue—a statue of Jesus.
Their worship is impressive, their faith confusing.
This Traslación ceremony is actually not rambling: the huge procession accompanies the stat
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