A ‘burilyo’ in search of a penitent

TARLAC CITY: Seventy-seven year old Hipolito Cabrera, of barangay Central here, is busy fixing his burilyo a few days before he takes to the road and under the scorching heat of the sun, perform a Lenten ritual he started six decades ago.

A burilyo is a bunch of bamboo sticks tied to a rope that flagellants use to lash their back along incur with the constant pounding of a panabad, a wooden pad encrusted with broken glass shards.