On Good Friday in the Philippines men will whip their backs until they are bloody and allow themselves to be crucified.
It is a decades-old practice that takes place predominantly in Pampanga by devout Catholics as a penance or to give thanks to God.
I was there last year to meet the people who take part and to document this colorful and intense experience.
Rolando Ocampo, 56, has been crucified every year since 1990 as a sign of his gratitude to God. He says God miraculously saved his wife from a difficult child birth in that year.
Minka Kelly Minki van der Westhuizen Miranda Kerr Mischa Barton
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