#flagellation

(There's a version with flagellation wounds but eeeh keeping it as a practice for myself...👀)

Have you ever felt that self-punishment isn't a burden enough and that you should try punishing others?

— The Flagellant probably

"Dear Lord, absolve me of my sins and purify my rotten soul. Let me mortify my flesh, for I am nothing but a sinner"

Finally done with this freak (affectionate)

His name is Serafim and he's a devil/cryptid living as a human. He doesn't know his true identity, which causes him a lot of internal conflict and suffering

And he's a priest. Obviously x)

Francisco Goya - A Procession of Flagellants, 1793 (detail)

Holy Week processions in Cartagena, 1872.

And another in 1891.

Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923) Nazareno sketch and gauche, 1914.

Confraternity processing in 1937. Nonzero chance that several people in this photo committed atrocities on people in Republican towns when those were seized by the Fascists. And some pictures of modern confraternities of penitents and Nazarenos from Wikipedia.