Manila, Apr. 7.
A few score of Filipino "Flagellantes" in remote villages of Luzon today performed the annual Good Friday rites of selffiagellation by beating their bare backs until their trousers were streaked with streaming blood, thus emulating, in their belief, Christ's sacrifice at Calvary.
The rites are not encouraged by the modern Catholic Church and are the "Los Hermanos Penitentes."
Manila's banks, shops end firms were closed throughout the day, while thousands of devout Catholics flocked to the churches to hear the annual three-hour sermons of "las slete Palabras," Christ's seven last words.—JUnited Press.
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