What's it like to be crucified?
On Good Friday in the Philippines, men will whip their backs until they're bloody and allow themselves 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
By Miguel Candela
5 April, 2012

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.







