Part of each day as a hermit might include this act of penance whose name is from the Latin for "whipping"
Flagellants are practitioners of an extreme form of mortification 
of their own flesh by whipping it ... Flagellation (from Latin flagellare, to whip) was 
quite a common practice... [DOC] [TLE] Cardinal Manning (1807-1982) - Internet History Sourcebooks [PAR] One day the little boy came in from the farmyard, and his mother [4] asked him 
whether ...