Who were the very religious Christians who believed that the Black Death was a punishment from god and used to whip themselves to avoid it?

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Zachary Bean

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3 February, 06:35

Who were the very religious Christians who believed that the Black Death was a punishment from god and used to whip themselves to avoid it?

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Lyric Todd · Answer 1

Flagellants were people who travelled about whipping each other. They believed that the Black Death was God'' punishment. They punished themselves in order to beg forgiveness and travelled around, singing hymns and saying prayers. There were two types of plague.