Over 2.6M barefoot devotees flock to Christ icon in Philippines

More than 2.6 million devotees on Tuesday joined the largest religious procession in the predominantly Catholic Philippines, jostling with each other during the hours-long march in honor of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ.

The devotees, mostly wearing maroon and yellow shirts, walked barefoot in the procession called Traslacion – the highlight of the feast of the Black Nazarene, a life-size wooden statue of Jesus Christ crowned with thorns and bearing a cross.