A hooded penitent, wearing prickly cactus thorns on his head, prepares to walk in a Good Friday procession during Holy Week in Atlixco, Mexico, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Pope Leo XIV carries a lightweight, 1.5-meter (5-foot) wooden cross during the Via Crucis, the torchlit Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession at the Colosseum in Rome, Friday, April 3, 2026, which symbolically retraces Jesus Christ's steps to his crucifixion on Calvary in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Faithful carry a cross to the Tree of Life during a Good Friday procession in the Ciudad Bolivar neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Members of the Resurrection Church walk by a street vendor as they perform during The Stations of the Cross procession through the Boyle Heights neighborhood on Good Friday, April 3, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman)
A man carries a cross during the "Way of the Cross" over the Brooklyn Bridge on Good Friday, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
A devotee in an angel costume prepares for the Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday during Holy Week in Arraijan, Panama, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Christians reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Guwahati, India, on Good Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A devotee holds a cross during a Good Friday procession in the Ciudad Bolivar neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
An amateur actor performing as Jesus, right, is fixed on a cross during the traditional Good Friday procession organised by the Italian community in Bensheim, Germany, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A Christian woman kisses a Jesus Christ cross during Good Friday service at Sacred Heart Cathedral, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Christians reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Guwahati, India, on Good Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A penitents known as a "Veronica" takes part in the Jesus del Gran Poder procession in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa).
Christians reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Guwahati, India, on Good Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A priest celebrates a service marking Good Friday at the Saint Charles church on Goree Island, Senegal, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
A penitent holds a tray with a figure's severed head, ears, and tongue depicting a biblical scene during a Holy Week procession of the "Hermandad de Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno" brotherhood in Puente Genil, southern Spain, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
A reenactment of Jesus Christ's sufferings as part of Good Friday rituals in the San Pedro Cutud village, Pampanga province, northern Philippines, Friday April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A Christian pilgrim prays at the third station along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City, largely empty due to restrictions linked to the Iran war, during Good Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Members of the St Francis Catholic Church take part in a Way of the Cross re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday during Holy Week in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, carries the cross during the Way of Cross ceremony to mark Good Friday, outside the Sacre Coeur basilica, in Paris, Friday, April 3, 2026 . (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
An Indian Christian devotee pray during a procession to mark Good Friday in Jammu, India, Friday, April 3, 2026.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)
A nail is pierced on the feet of Arnold Manaigo during the reenactment of Jesus Christ's sufferings as part of Good Friday rituals in the San Pedro Cutud village, Pampanga province, northern Philippines April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Pope Leo XIV lies prostrate at the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Catholic Good Friday, Friday, April 3, 2026 (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Christians take part in a Way of the Cross re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday during Holy Week in Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Samson Otieno)
A pilgrim makes the Good Friday journey to Chimayó, New Mexico, on Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
Parishioners walk in a procession after a Good Friday Mass at St. Anthony Church, which was devoted to expressing solidarity with Christian villagers in southern Lebanon displaced by the war in Jdeideh, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Pope Leo XIV carries a lightweight, 1.5-meter (5-foot) wooden cross during the Via Crucis, the torchlit Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession at the Colosseum in Rome, Friday, April 3, 2026, which symbolically retraces Jesus Christ's steps to his crucifixion on Calvary in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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By The Associated Press
Good Friday is a unique — and uniquely solemn — day in the Christian calendar.
It commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus, ahead of what’s a central tenet of faith for believers — his resurrection two days later on Easter Sunday, according to the Gospels.
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