Mortification

The mortification is a practice which consists in mortifying the flesh for medical reasons, culinary or religious. With the Middle Ages, mortification was a current practice among the monks to make Humiliation in front of Christ.

She was privileged by several saints of the time baroque. She would be always practiced within the Opus Dei, of which the Silas monk of Da Vinci Code into famous the exaggeration with the Cilice.

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