عاشوراء جنوب شرق اسيا /الفلبين

Alexi Dionitsio keeps nails, which penitents will be nailed to the crucifix in Hagonoy, Bulacan, Philippines


Residents of the island Marinduk in costumes of Roman soldiers at the festival Moriones.

Participants in the parade dressed as Roman soldiers involved in the dance competition at the festival Moriones.



People are photographed and filmed as the blade cuts the man’s back in town Flagellants Angeles.


Flagellants red-backs are on their knees in front of a church in San Fernando.

Catholics with bloody backs are on the streets of San Fernando, continuing to beat ourselves.



The young man hits Flagellants imitating Jesus Christ, the bark of banana tree in Adzhelese, Pampanga province in Holy Week.



Man uses broken glass, inserted into a piece of wood to cut back Catholics in San Francisco.

Samobichevatel beats themselves with bamboo sticks in Paombonge, north of Manila.



Believer nailed to the cross during one of the most extreme rites in the Philippines.

Legs believer nailed to the cross in San Juan, Province of Pampanga, north of Manila.



Around the world are hundreds of processions during Holy Week. In Spain, especially a lot of them. In the photo: members of the brotherhood “Dolors” participate in the procession.

Believers perform “Dance of the Dead” in Vergese, eastern Spain.

Bloody handprints on the wall of the church after the procession, which took place on city streets Verbikaro, southern Italy.


Flagellants beat themselves with bamboo sticks tied on ropes.

The boy looks at Flagellants who prays at a church in San Fernando.

The crowd watches as flagellant engaged in self-flagellation