Sentence:  After these Street-Exercises, these ostentatious Castigations are over, these <WSD>Self-sacrificers</WSD> 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" ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A person who offers himself or herself as a sacrifice (as a religious act, for example).