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Flagellants wearing dried banana leaves and colorful headdresses whip their backs during Good Friday Lenten Rites on March 29, 2024 in Infanta, Quezon province, Philippines. Although the act of self mortification is condemned by the Catholic church and frowned upon in the modern age, thousands of Filipino faithful still practice it to this day as a form of popular piety and has become a part of Philippine tradition in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)
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