'Penitents not paid for real-life crucifixion'.Manila: Organisers belied reports that penitents have been paid to undergo the painful rites of real-life crucifixion which has become tourist attractions in three towns in San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. , central Luzon Central Luzon region contains the largest plain of the Philippines, and produces most of the country's rice supply. That is why it is called the "Rice Bowl" of the Philippines. Its provinces are: Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, and Zambales. , a local newspaper said. Almost a dozen of penitents who were nailed to wooden crosses in Cutud San Fernando on Good Friday did so to commemorate a traditional religious practice, Cutud San Fernando village chief Remegio de la Cruz de la Cruz is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning 'of The Cross.'
"They regard it as a form of penance. It is part of tradition in Cutud," de la Cruz said, adding that Ruben Enaje, 54, who has played the role of Jesus Christ in Cutud, for 23 years has done it voluntarily, year after year. "He has offered himself to be nailed to the cross as a thanksgiving since he survived a fall from a three-storey building in 1986," explained de la Cruz. Enaje, a humble resident of Cutud, works as a house painter and makes streamers Streamers is a play by David Rabe. The last in his Vietnam War trilogy that began with The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones for a living. Cutud's local executive committee has raised more than P300,000 (Dh27,272) from donors for the lenten season, said sources, adding that no amount went to those who wanted to be nailed to the cross or to those who underwent flagellation flagellation /flag·el·la·tion/ (flaj?e-la´shun) 1. whipping or being whipped to achieve erotic pleasure. 2. exflagellation. 3. the formation or arrangement of flagella on an organism or surface. for two days as a form of penance. Before noon, Cutud's time for crucifixion, some 700 residents, young and old, naked up to the waist, had withstood the heat and pain for four hours as they whipped their backs with glass shards attached to leather whips. They have been whipping themselves since Thursday. In the past, a Belgian nun and a Japanese man had joined Cutud's ritual of real-life crucifixion The popularity of Cutud's practice of real-life crucifixion has inspired nearby villages of San Pedro, Saint Lucia, and San Juan, all in San Fernando, to hold their respective real-life crucifixion. Al Nisr Publishing Al Nisr Publishing is a company based in Dubai, UAE. The company is a part of Al Tayer Group. It was established in 1985 by Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Abdullah Al Rostamani and Juma Al Majid. It employs 1,050 people and has branches in Manilla, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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