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The statue of Our Lady of the Assumption returns at the Sanctuary after the procession made in the streets of the country on August 27, 2017 in Guardia Sanframondi, Italy. Every seven years, the Septennial Rites of Penance in honor of Our Lady of the Assumption are held in Guardia Sanframondi where 1000 hooded men strike their back with a metal scourge and beat their chests with a "spugna", a disk of cork holding dozen of pins as a rite of atonement for sins. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty

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