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                    [Title] => 'Kristo' in Pampanga to retire from crucifixions after 30 years
                    [Summary] => The 62-year-old has been reenacting the Passion of Christ every Good Friday since 1986 as part of a "vow sacrifice" — this includes carrying a 37-kilogram cross for two kilometers, getting whipped, and finally crucified.
                    [DatePublished] => 2023-03-17 17:46:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Kristofer Purnell
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                    [ArticleID] => 1440206
                    [Title] => Cutud's 'Kristo' to pray for PNoy, SAF kin
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When he is hoisted on the cross for the 29th time on Good Friday, signboard maker Ruben Enaje will not only be praying for himself, his family and friends.

[DatePublished] => 2015-04-03 00:36:53 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1473499 [AuthorName] => Louis Bacani [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150131/mourner-in-chief-aquino.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1440209 [Title] => Cutud tourists told: Pray and reflect [Summary] =>

Don't just watch. Pray and reflect.

[DatePublished] => 2015-04-03 00:19:30 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1473499 [AuthorName] => Louis Bacani [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/business-main/20150329/lenten-season-3.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1440210 [Title] => WATCH: 'Kristo' appeals to PNoy, gov't officials [Summary] =>

The man who portrays Jesus Christ in the yearly crucifixion rites in Barangay San Pedro Cutud has an appeal to government officials, particularly President Benigno Aquino III.

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Devotees in northern Philippine villages had themselves nailed to wooded crosses to re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as thousands of local and foreign spectators watched the bloody annual rites to mark Good Friday in Asia's largest Roman Catholic nation.

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Devotees in villages in the northern Philippines took part in a bloody annual ritual to mark Good Friday, a celebration that mixes Roman Catholic devotion and Filipino folk beliefs and sees some reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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Thousands of people gathered in Philippine villages to watch devotees being nailed to crosses as they marked Good Friday by re-enacting Jesus Christ's suffering, a yearly rite that continues even as church leaders discourage the practice.

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SAN FERNANDO, Philippines (AP) — Filipino devotees had themselves nailed to crosses Friday to remember Jesus Christ's suffering and death — an annual rite rejected by church leaders in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.

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Some 500 barefoot penitents, their faces covered with black cloth and their heads crowned with thorns, will start their dolorous march through the main streets here today.
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