A massive crowd of mostly barefoot devotees on Thursday joined the largest religious procession in the predominantly ... from Mexico to Manila in 1606 by Spanish missionaries.

Santiago, or Saint James, was a popular saint in Spanish America, and statues and paintings of him abound ... The statue would be borne out of the church into the streets for the religious processions ...

The procession, called the “traslacion,” or translation, commemorates the transfer of the Black Nazarene from a church inside the old Spanish colonial capital of Intramuros, in present-day ...

9, more than 8 million mostly barefoot Filipino devotees filled the streets of Manila for the annual “Black Nazarene” procession, one of the world’s largest displays of religious devotion.

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include a Spanish Inquisition ceremony being performed, the first church ...

Gibraltar’s Bishop has met a Spanish diplomat in the Campo de Gibraltar to secure Madrid’s help in the planning of a cross-border procession to mark 700 years of devotion to Our Lady of Europe.

The black statue of Jesus of Nazarene leaves a park following a mass during an annual religious procession in Manila ... shortly after the start of the Spanish colonial conquest.

"Beautiful beyond exaggeration," is how one Spanish chronicler described Tanta ... to the mountain where she would be sacrificed the procession passed through her home village.

A massive crowd of more than 7.4 million mostly barefoot devotees has joined the largest religious procession in the predominantly Catholic Philippines in honour of a centuries-old statue of Jesus ...

The procession ... religious parade commemorates the arrival of the wooden statue of the genuflecting Jesus the Nazarene from Acapulco, Mexico in the early 1600s, shortly after the start of the ...