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What is a penitente?

What is a penitente? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tall thin blade of hardened snow or ice, found closely spaced in large quantities at high altitudes.
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Penitente membership comprises two strata distinguishable by title and activity.
Beautifully reconstructed by legendary Limon dancer Sarah Stackhouse, La Malinche clearly resembles Graham's El Penitente.
These attitudes were materialized in the building of the Penitente moradas.
What they got was an adaptation of an unfinished mass, the Davide Penitente, a solid work but lacking the usual Mozart wow factor.
Edmonson's study of 1950 has established the persistence of Penitente activity in Hispano culture.
The special character of the Penitente brotherhood is demonstrated also in the last two bultos on the south morada altar.

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