They found plans for self-crucifixion and a whip there.

We dare not rest content with a neat doctrine of self-crucifixion.

It was all crucifixion, even worse, self-crucifixion.

Among the showmen are an armless and legless bowler and a performance artist who specialized in self-crucifixion.

Some Roman Catholics in Philippines practice flagellation as a form of devout worship, sometimes in addition to self-crucifixion

A display of self-crucifixion at the 1962 Bread Loaf conference has become, as Bailey dryly records, "part of the permanent lore of the place."

Like the self-crucifixion practiced at Easter by devout Christians in some parts of the Philippines, blood-letting is a traditional part of the 10-day festival, known as Ashura.

The Catholic Church frowns on self-crucifixion as a form of devotion: "Penitential practices leading to self-crucifixion with nails are not to be encouraged."

Let this exposure and self-revelation not be self-crucifixion, but rather an awareness raising campaign, that utilises the confronting intimacy of the work to incite individiual understanding and public transgression.

Horsley claims to have slept with more than 1,000 prostitutes, worked as a male escort, been in and out of rehab to treat drug addiction and staged a self-crucifixion in the Philippines in 2000.

He has known Ted for eight years without finding out that a certain bitter and Calvinistic penchant for self-crucifixion is one of his ruling forces--and one of those least easily deduced from his externals.

He said the flamboyant writer, wearing a top hat, three-piece suit and painted finger nails, was accused of "moral turpitude" in connection with his former drug use, pro-prostitution stance and controversial self-crucifixion in the Philippines in 2000.

He has, in other words, perfectly mixed credentials for portraying the Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, a defrocked Episcopal minister who roams the world unhappily committing sins of the flesh, collecting evidence of God's depravity and occasionally enacting rituals of self-crucifixion.