Flagellation is the act of whipping or scourging the body. Some ascetics inflict flagellation upon themselves for punishment of their sins. For example St.
servus Dei, voco, cito et urgeo te, Spiritum, per sanctissimam incarnationem Iesu Christi, per sanctissimam suam nativitatem, circumcisionem, flagellationem, coronationem, crucis bajulationem, crucifixionem, ...
her in the strongest terms, the ladies of Charles VI's court resolved to revenge their affronted honor, and surrounding him in the royal antechamber, desired the courtiers present to strip him preparatory to their inflicting a sound flagellation.
Although nothing much happened that year, the asceticism emerged as ritual self-flagellation that was institutionalized in a number of confraternities (Leff, 1967).
is there no greater joy than flagellation; the ecstatic paralysis that makes holocausts of withered souls; the hideously pitiable cripples-"I fear . . . "?
If so he should actually desire them saying: "Why should I fast and afflict by myself with sackcloth and flagellation which weaken my strength for God's service that I bring them upon myself?
 See also: World, Evil, Occult, Light, Death
  
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