Flagellant RJ Rivera (L), whips his back with bamboo before being wounded to bleed as part of his penitence during the re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for Good Friday celebrations  in San Juan, Pampanga on March 30, 2018.
Flagellant RJ Rivera (L), whips his back with bamboo before being wounded to bleed as part of his penitence during the re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for Good Friday celebrations in San Juan, Pampanga on March 30, 2018.
Flagellant Jay Villafuerta has his back massaged by a boy before being wounded as part of his penitence during the re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ  in  San Juan, Pampanga,  on March 30, 2018.
Flagellant Jay Villafuerta has his back massaged by a boy before being wounded as part of his penitence during the re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in San Juan, Pampanga, on March 30, 2018.

SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga: Filipino zealots marked Good Friday with a bloody display of religious frenzy by having themselves nailed to crosses and whipping their backs raw in Asia's bastion of Catholicism.

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