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WATCH: Filipino penitents mark Good Friday with floggings

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ABS-CBN News

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">LOOK: Flagellants or &quot;kristos&quot; in Malolos, Bulacan walk their way from church to church this Good Friday for the traditional &quot;penitensya&quot; (repentance) during Holy Week. | <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DZMMTeleRadyo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DZMMTeleRadyo</a> <a href="https://t.co/f3VEIItQ0T">pic.twitter.com/f3VEIItQ0T</a></p>— Nico Bagsic (@nicobagsic) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicobagsic/status/1514765847520485377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2022</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>MANILA — Some flagellants walked to different churches of Malolos, Bulacan on Good Friday in observance of Holy Week.</p><p>They whipped their backs in the belief their sins will be forgiven and divine favors will be granted.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">&quot;Kristos&quot; use leather straps or ropes with thorny wires to hit themselves at the back, carry a cross through different churches. Some would go further and get crucified on a cross on Good Friday. They consider it a spritual act to seek forgiveness. | <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DZMMTeleRadyo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DZMMTeleRadyo</a> <a href="https://t.co/0jhy5Ql17M">pic.twitter.com/0jhy5Ql17M</a></p>— Nico Bagsic (@nicobagsic) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicobagsic/status/1514767724714799108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2022</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Across the country of which majority are Catholic, the same ritual will be played out in many towns culminating in crucifixions on Good Friday.</p><p>The Church frowns on the practice and has called for a stop to these forms of self-punishment, calling them a misinterpretation of faith.</p><div><strong>— With a report from Nico Bagsic, ABS-CBN News; Agence France Presse</strong><br/> </div>

They whipped their backs in the belief their sins will be forgiven and divine favors granted.