good friday

     

Many businesses close early in honor of this observance that falls 2 days before Easter

Trivia about good friday

  • This observance always falls 2 days before Easter
  • In the Roman Catholic Church fasting during Lent need only occur on Ash Wednesday & this day
  • Dante begins his journey on this day, the anniversary of the crucifixion
  • A Northern Ireland peace accord was reached on April 10, 1998, this holy day
  • In a poem on this day in 1613, Donne begs the crucified Jesus to punish & thus save him
  • The liturgy of this day includes a reading of the Passion according to St. John
  • George Mitchell helped with this "agreement", signed in Belfast on April 10, 1998 & named for this holy day
  • Jews, who don't eat or drink at all on Yom Kippur, might envy the 1-meal Catholic "fast" on Ash Wednesday & this day
  • In 1955 the Pope moved the service from this observance, including St. John's Passion, to the afternoon
  • The USA's most powerful quake occurred in 1964 in Alaska on this Christian holiday also associated with a quake