scourge

Derivation

• scoriade - italian
• excoriare = to flay; corium = skin - latin

Also known as

• flagrum - latin
• flagellum - english

Article

A whip or lash, usually with multiple thongs used to inflict severe corporal punishment or self-mortification on the back. The naval type uses thick-rope, army and civil prison versions are usually leather. Those used on the condemned have pieces of stone or bone in the ends to cut and tear the skin. One of the implements of Christ’s Passion, and in art it is a symbol of self-inflicted penance, used in pictures of saints famed for austerity.

Associated in Art

• Blessed Bonaventure Tornielli
• Saint Ambrose of Milan
• Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
• Saint Boniface
• Saint Bridget of Sweden
• Saint Francis of Paola
• Saint Gervase
• Saint Guthlac of Croyland
• Saint Ottone Frangipane
• Saint Peter Damian
• Saint Protase
• Saint Raynerius Inclusus

MLA Citation

• “scourge”. Emblems of the Faith. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 April 2012. Web. 25 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/scourge/>