flagellants

The flagellants were a phenomenon of seething, popular passion, outside of the church and unapproved by its authority.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

Soldiers were intent on crusades into the Holy Land to capture the city of Jerusalem and to rescue the tomb of the Savior from the hands of the heathen, and fanatical bands called "flagellants" were soon to appear throughout Europe -- men and women who scourged each other with whips in public places until they fell down fainting from pain and exhaustion, believing that this practice was welcome in the eyes of the

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards

The doubt of the Church and the clergy caused people to follow other religious groups, such as the flagellants.

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Southwest of Atlixco is Huaquechula, as well known for its Día de los Muertos celebration as it is for its Gothic style monastery, which could easily serve as the setting for a vampire movie, complete with murals of black-hooded flagellants and medieval Spanish iconography.

Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009

Southwest of Atlixco is Huaquechula, as well known for its Día de los Muertos celebration as it is for its Gothic style monastery, which could easily serve as the setting for a vampire movie, complete with murals of black-hooded flagellants and medieval Spanish iconography.

Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009

And everybody else, all his fellow Filipinos: a lot of superstitious maniacs, miracle seekers, statue-worshippers, stigmata-bleeders, berserk flagellants running on Good Friday through province after province with dripping, self-inflicted wounds …

A Bright Shining Lie 2007

It was commissioned by the Company of the Cross of the Day, a confraternity of flagellants in the Italian city of Volterra.

Archive 2009-04-01 Julianne Douglas 2009

It was commissioned by the Company of the Cross of the Day, a confraternity of flagellants in the Italian city of Volterra.

Descent from the Cross Julianne Douglas 2009

And everybody else, all his fellow Filipinos: a lot of superstitious maniacs, miracle seekers, statue-worshippers, stigmata-bleeders, berserk flagellants running on Good Friday through province after province with dripping, self-inflicted wounds …

A Bright Shining Lie 2007

The whole experience is a little like my reaction to the concept of auto-flagellants in Dostoyevsky, people who whip themselves into a state of holy communion with god — taking a very bad idea and misconstruing it and then believing it is a good, holy, even culturally defining experience.

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