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What's it like to be crucified?

What's it like to be crucified?

During Holy Week in the Philippines, devotees allow themselves to be nailed to a cross. Here's how they bear the pain

Philippines man cricified
On Good Friday in the Philippines, men will whip their backs until they're bloody and allow themselves to be crucified.

It's a decades-old practice that takes place predominantly in Pampanga province by devout Catholics as a penance or to give thanks to God. 

I went there to meet the people who take part in this 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.

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