Word: flagellantism
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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"Sainted Mother Marie." A strapping Italian youth enacted the role of Mme. Mesmin, the notorious "Sainted Mother Marie," chief flagellant of the Sadistic order of Notre Dame Des Pleurs, which has flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, France. Attired in a "mother hubbard" and brandishing a knotted rope end, he...
Naturally it occurred to them to push the ordinary flagellant rites of their order to the last extremes. Despatches carried the following details: "The Abbé was set upon, in the vestry of his church by a crowd of men and women carrying pepper pots and lengths of knotted rope. . . . They...