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Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on roads, carrying heavy\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1333621685_3\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-visible\" style=\"cursor: pointer; color: #366388; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #366388;\">wooden crosses<\/span>\u00a0and whipping their backs until they bled on Thursday in an annual gory religious ritual as the mainly\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1333621685_1\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-visible\" style=\"cursor: pointer; color: #366388; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #366388;\">Catholic Philippines<\/span>\u00a0observed near the end of the<span id=\"lw_1333621685_0\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-visible\" style=\"cursor: pointer; color: #366388; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #366388;\">Lenten season<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_22_1333625123589218\" style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Many Filipino devotees perform\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1333621685_7\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-ndcor\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\">religious penance<\/span>\u00a0during the week leading up to Easter Sunday as a form of worship and supplication, a practice discouraged by\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1333621685_6\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-ndcor\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\">Catholic bishops<\/span>, but widely believed by devotees to cleanse sins, cure illness and even grant wishes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_22_1333625123589212\" style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&#8220;I do this penance out of my free will because I believe that God will help relieve my sickness,&#8221;\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1333621685_4\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-visible\" style=\"cursor: pointer; color: #366388; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #366388;\">Corazon Cabigting<\/span>, a domestic helper and the only woman in a group of about 50 men carrying wooden crosses on their backs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_22_1333625123589223\" style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Like the men, Cabigting wore a maroon robe and covered her face with a veil, held on her head by a crown of stainless wire, dragging a 30-kg (66-lb)\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1333621685_8\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-ndcor\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\">wooden cross<\/span>\u00a0and stopping every 500 meters (546 yards) in makeshift roadside chapels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Elderly women chant the passion of Jesus Christ at some of the chapels, while the penitents, with their hands tied to the cross, are beaten by sticks and hemp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&#8220;Priests often tell us that we should not be doing this,&#8221; Melvin Pangilinan, an organizer of the annual Lenten ritual who carried cross in his younger days, told Reuters. &#8220;But, it has been our tradition for decades and we have to honor it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In nearby Angeles City, bloody gashes from repeated strikes of whips could be seen on the backs of devotees as they walked barefoot along the streets, believing that their sacrifice would somehow grant salvation for their sins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Devotees, begin the ritual by tying a rope around their arms and legs and inflicting wounds on their backs with a blade marching for about four to five hours under a scorching sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Carlito Santos, a pastor at a local Methodist Church, said the practice cannot be easily relinquished as it has already been embedded in the local culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&#8220;It is easy to change these religious practices by asking these devotees to refrain from practicing it, but, because of culture and tradition, it does not always work,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_22_1333625123589215\" style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Monsignor Pedro Quitorio, spokesman for the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1333621685_5\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-visible\" style=\"cursor: pointer; color: #366388; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #366388;\">Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines<\/span>, said the Church has discouraged the practices, describing them as &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&#8220;What happens here is that we want God to grant us what we wish for,&#8221; Quitorio told Reuters, saying it is enough for true Catholics to pray, fast and give alms during the Lenten season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Over 80 percent of Filipinos practice the Catholic religion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_22_1333625123589418\" style=\"margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">(Reporting By Roli Ng, Peter Blaza, Krystine Antonio and Camille Elvina; Writing by Manuel Mogato; Editing by Ed Lane)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters\u00a0\u2013\u00a059 mins ago Email 6 Print RELATED CONTENT \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A penitent prays before whipping\u00a0\u2026 A penitent lies on a ground as\u00a0\u2026 VIEW SLIDESHOWS Wax royals unveiled at Madame Tussauds 8 photos &#8211; 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