"self-sacrificer" meaning in English

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          "text": "1728, attributed to Daniel Defoe, The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 186,\nAfter these Street-Exercises, these ostentatious Castigations are over, these Self-sacrificers repair to the great Church, the bloodier the better; there they throw themselves, in a Condition too vile for the Eye of a Female, before the Image of the Virgin Mary […]"
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