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The name of the village
is Nocera Tirinese,
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in the region of Calabria.
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The day is a Good Friday,
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and the police are trying
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in vain to implement
the priest's request.
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He's been trying for
a few years to convince
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the believers to give up
the ritual, the ''battienti''.
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The ''battienti'' perpetuated
through the centuries
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a tradition whose
origins are obscure.
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On every Good Friday,
they flagellate their legs
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using wooden disks
full of fragments of glass
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and run to spread
their blood on the streets
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where, in a few hours,
the procession,
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with a crucifix,
will pass by.