
1) American secret society 2) Catholic lay organisation 3) Secret order of flagellants
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Penitentes, or nieves penitentes (Spanish for `penitent-shaped snows`), are a snow formation found at high altitudes. They take the form of tall thin blades of hardened snow or ice, closely spaced with the blades oriented towards the general direction of the sun. The name comes from the resemblance of a field of penitentes to a crowd of people k.....
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[New Mexico] Los Hermanos de la Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (Spanish: `The Brothers of the Pious Fraternity of Our Father Jesus the Nazarene`), also known as Los Penitentes, Los Hermanos, the Brotherhood of our Father Jesus of Nazareth and the ``Penitente`` Brotherhood) is a lay confraternity of Spanish-American Rom...
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