Cilice
GARMENT MADE FROM COARSELY WOVEN CLOTH, WORN AS A TOKEN OF MOURNING OR MORTIFICATION
Hair shirt; Sack cloth; Hair-shirt; Hairshirt; Sackcloth and ashes
A cilice , also known as a sackcloth, was originally a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair (a hairshirt) worn close to the skin. It is used by members of various Christian traditions (including the Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, and Scottish Presbyterian churches) as a self-imposed means of repentance and mortification of the flesh; as an instrument of penance, it is often worn during the Christian penitential season of Lent, especially on Ash Wednesday, [[Good Friday