Flagellants, faith, customs and traditions

Posted by hazelrchua on March 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I took Warren for a short visit to my motherâ€™s hometown in Barrio Panipuan, San Fernando, Pampanga last Good Friday to show him a tradition that this quaint village celebrates year after year. Needless to say, it was also a tradition that has formed part of my childhood.

Barrio Panipuan is about 30 minutes from our place in Balibago, Angeles City. We took the old MacArthur Hiway route, passing Telabastagan and stopping by a subdivision at the back of Paningâ€™s to pick up my niece Asia and my sister Aissa. We took a left at Barrio Baliti and went straight ahead towards our point of destination. Just as we were taking a right to enter the village, we were slowed down by a melee of young men. One of them was holding a long rope which, to me, looked like a makeshift â€œlatigoâ€ or whip. He was bent over and talking to another man whose head was covered with a white makeshift turban, he had a crown of bougainvillea stalks, he had no shirt on – just denim pants, was barefooted and his back was soaked in blood. He was holding a cord with short sticks at the end. He whips the cord on his back to make the blood ooze, sometimes, the young man with a whip would take out a bottle of water from his pocket and pour a little on the sticks to make it look like there is just too much blood coming out of the manâ€™s back. Continue reading>>

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