LaTigresse -> RE: John Paul II used belt to whip himself (1/26/2010 11:02:43 AM)
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I am trying to remember the details, but I believe it is regularly practiced by several religiouns. I am almost positive I have read about monks that do it en mass on a specific date. In addition, I saw something, perhaps on the travel channel where there were young men walking through the street as part of a religious ceremony, flogging themselves. It was someplace more remote in either China, Tibet, Vietnam.....something. And then there is the device that some devout used to place around their thigh I believe, that dug in quite painfully. For some reason I just remembered the old story about the hair shirt.
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