Flagellants whip their backs during Maundy Thursday Lenten rites in Angeles city, Pampanga province, north of Manila April 9, 2009. The Roman Catholic church frowns on the gory spectacle held in the Philippine village every Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday but that does nothing to deter the faithful from emulating the suffering of Christ and taking a painful route to penitence.
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