About 800,000 join Cebu Eucharist procession

Published January 29, 2016 11:13pm

There is an increase in the number of Eucharistic devotees over the years, said World Federation of the Church’s Eucharistic Works' Jose Angel Linares.

In Cebu City, a foot procession was held Friday night from the Cebu provincial capitol building to Plaza independencia. Crowd estimate, according to police officials, was 800,000.

Police estimated the crowd of the procession to have peaked at more than 800,000 #EucharistPH
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“Every year it grows and grows throughout the world,” Linares was quoted in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) website.

Linares was in Cebu to attend the general assembly of the federation at the sidelines of the ongoing International Eucharistic Congress.

He added that more lay Eucharistic devotees from different countries have been seeking membership in the federation. — BAP/APG, GMA News

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