On Good Friday in the Philippines, the Flagellantes do the same thing, flogging their backs, while others drag large crosses for miles.
The flogging stuff is pagan... IIRC the Roman Catholic church frowns on it. Cross dragging... if they want to cross drag, fine. Many Christian groups do it. The gospel doesn’t say to do that kind of gratuitous suffering. There’s quite enough suffering simply entailed in striving to do good to an evil world that doesn’t want it. But Phillipines are weird.
Phillipines => Philippines