The Black Nazarene icon was brought back to its home in Quiapo Church in Manila before the break of dawn on Thursday after 21 hours, marking the end of one of the biggest religious activities in the country, the “Traslacion.”

The “andas” or the carriage bearing the statue of a suffering Jesus Christ reached the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene, more commonly known as the Quiapo Church, at 2:21 a.m., which was about half an hour earlier than last year’s arrival, according to Manila Police District Director Vicente Danao Jr.

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