Battenti - The largest self-punishment rite in the Western world. (24 images)

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It is the largest self-punishment rite in the Western world. About 1300 Christian men and women dressed in white and wearing hoods to hide their identifies beat their chests and strike their backs with spiked metal instruments. White wine is used to soak the sponges bristling with pins so as not to curdle the blood. Another three thousand people stage the 'Mysteries', sacred representations from the Bible, the lives of the saints, the Catechism and Church history, involving youth, the elderly...
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