QUICKER, SADDER. Devotees crowd the andas carrying the image of the Black Nazarene as it passes through the Ayala Bridge in Manila during the Traslacion on January 9, 2020. Photo by Franz Lopez/Rappler
Carried on the shoulders of its custodians, the Hijos de Nazareno, the icon left the Quirino Grandstand at the Luneta at past 4 am, more than an hour ahead of the announced schedule.
Sinas barked orders on a megaphone drowned out by hymns playing from the prayer station at the Philippine Normal University, and from the shouts of devotees calling out to their companions.apparently slowed down at Finance Road, such that the detail of police officers heading the procession had to walk back to where it was. Sinas led them, still blaring inaudible orders from his megaphone.
Merwin Ilagan, a young but veteran devotee, said he and his companions liked that the procession was going quickly, but it made it more difficult for them to perform their rituals: the touch, the kiss, the ride on theIt was also dangerous, he said: The ropes made it difficult to enter the throng, but it also made it harder to leave it. People about to faint couldn’t just get out, trapped inside by the police barricade.
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