"So I always tell them, we will serve without expecting anything in return because Jesus the Black Nazarene has been very generous to us," Bernal added.
The biggest change that the officials emphasized is that the devotees will no longer be
allowed to climb up the caroza also called “andas” of Jesus the Black Nazarene.
“Meeting the Pope makes you want to cry”, this is how Anna Marco, a real estate consultant, described the indelible memories she had in an extraordinary encounter with Pope John Paul II in 1995, who later became a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Quezon City Government, in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of Our Lady of the Rosary of La Naval as patroness of Quezon City, Philippines, has promulgated a new resolution designating October as the commemorative month.