During Henry II's contrition for the death of Thomas Becket, did the Bishops, Abbots and Monks give him a ceremonial tap with a rod or did they beat him severely?

by HarryLillis

I read that the eighty monks of Canterbury Cathedral each struck him with a rod three times, and that each of the Bishops and Abbots struck him five times with a rod. This sounds like a very grim scene, unless it was a light tap. Is there any record of how hard they struck him, or was this a common enough practice that we have a good idea of how hard they struck him?

The_Led_Zeppelin

They thrashed the living daylights out of him