Josemaria Escriva
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Opus Dei: Secrets and Power Inside the Catholic Church tells us how Josemaria Escriva, the founder of the Opus Dei got closer to God:
Soon, the ailing disciple later recalled of what Escriva did on that occasion, I began to hear the forceful blows of his discipline (a hand whip favoured to this day by Opus Dei members). I will never forget the number: there were more than a thousand terrible blows, precisely timed, and always inflicted with the same force and the same rhythm. The floor was covered with blood.
Nowadays we call it S&M.