This practice inspired the design of otenpesha, sacred objects among the Kakure Kirishitan of Japan.
This practice inspired the design of otenpesha, sacred objects among the Kakure Kirishitan of Japan. Dominic Loricatius's engagement in this practice was used to defend it in a treatise by Peter Damian. During Lent in nineteenth-century New Mexico, this was done by the Coloradan and New Mexican confraternity Los Hermanos Penitentes. Tatbir and zanjeer zani are forms of this practice which commemorate the martyrdom of Husayn on the Shi'a Muslim holiday of Ashura. The white habit-wearing Brotherhood of the Cross did this to evoke John 19:1, a Biblical episode where Christ stood in front of a column. For 10 points, name this extreme form of religious self-punishment which wandering bands undertook during medieval plagues.
This practice inspired the design of otenpesha, sacred objects among the Kakure Kirishitan of Japan.
ritual self-flagellation [or whipping oneself; or flogging oneself; or mortification of the flesh; or striking oneself with a sword; prompt on \"self-harm\" or \"violence\" or \"cutting oneself\" or \"penitence\" or \"self-punishment\" or other less-specific answers]