"scourging"

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3 Apr 2026

A person observes as another individual scours the back of a kneeling penitent in Mandaluyong City, Philippines, on April 2, 2026, during Maundy Thursday.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A devotee drinks a glass of rum before the ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday, April 3, 2026, in Antipolo City, Philippines. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ, transforming the streets into a display of faith, endurance, and communal identity.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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3 Apr 2026

A hooded devotee performs a ritual of self-flagellation on Good Friday in Antipolo City, Philippines, on April 3, 2026. This centuries-old tradition, known locally as penitensya, involves participants scourging their backs with wooden bamboo strips as an act of atonement, a plea for divine intervention, or forgiveness of sins. The Catholic Church discourages this practice, advocating for prayer and internal repentance over physical sacrifice. Despite this, the practice remains a deeply rooted cultural fixture in rural provinces. For many participants, the physical pain symbolizes participation in the Passion of Christ.

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15 Apr 2022

The first crucifer enters the Church, kneeling prays and then scourging himself with the chain in Noicattaro on April 14, 2022. In Noicattaro, on the evening of Holy Thursday, one of the oldest Holy Week rites in Puglia takes place: the procession of the Crociferi. The crucifers are men dressed in black clothes, hoods pulled down on their faces and crown of thorns on their heads who, from the church of the Madonna della Lama, walk barefoot through the streets of the center to visit the altars of the reposition set up in the churches of the city. After the bonfire is lit, the crucifers move in procession followed by torches and tree frogs dragged by the children. These particular tools have the function of remembering the crowd of praetorians who accompanied Jesus on his painful walk towards Pilate.

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29 Oct 2025

A unique tidal tree landscape forms on the mudflat due to the long-term scouring of the tide at Dongtai Tiaozini Wetland in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, China, on October 28, 2025.

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29 Oct 2025

A unique tidal tree landscape forms on the mudflat due to the long-term scouring of the tide at Dongtai Tiaozini Wetland in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, China, on October 28, 2025.

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29 Oct 2025

A unique tidal tree landscape forms on the mudflat due to the long-term scouring of the tide at Dongtai Tiaozini Wetland in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, China, on October 28, 2025.

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