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24 unusual facts about Good Friday


1918–19 Blackpool F.C. season

They followed that up on Good Friday, 18 April, with a 1–1 draw against Burnley in front of their first five-figure crowd of the wartime seasons, 12,000.

Arthur Bridgett

Bridgett was a deeply religious man, and refused to play on Good Friday or Christmas Day throughout his career.

Ausiàs March

He is an undisguised follower of Petrarch, carrying the imitation to such a point that he addressed his Cants d'amor (love songs) to a lady whom he professed to have seen first in church on Good Friday.

Bank holiday

Prior to 1834, the Bank of England observed about 33 saints' days and religious festivals as holidays, but in 1834 this was reduced to four: 1 May (May Day), 1 November (All Saints Day), Good Friday, and Christmas Day.

Bray Head

Every Good Friday, hundreds of local people climb to the top of the head in a Good Friday procession marking the stations of the Cross, as they go along with the final station being held at the holy year cross.

Carolyn Watkinson

She was a soloist in Bach's St. John Passion at Gloucester Cathedral in a performance shown on BBC TV on Good Friday in 1989.

Coatesville, Indiana

On March 26, 1948 (Good Friday) a tornado destroyed most of the town, killing 14 residents.

Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca

San Esteban is also the canonical seat of the Dominican Fraternity of Stmo Christ of the Good Death which makes its penitential procession in Salamanca at dawn on Good Friday, and the Royal and Pontifical Sacrament Confraternity of Mary, Mother of God of the Rosary and St. Pius V fraternity of glory, restarted recently after years of inactivity.

Cross Maidan

Good Friday and Maundy Thursday services are held in an exclusive area around the cross.

Cry of Pugad Lawin

In 1895 Bonifacio, Masangkay, Emilio Jacinto and other Katipuneros spent Good Friday in the caves of Mt. Pamitinan in Montalban (now part of Rizal province).

Cyril Peacock

In 1952, by then a member of the Tooting Bicycle Club in south London, he won the £1,000 International Champion of Champions sprint at Herne Hill velodrome, also in south London, on Good Friday 1953.

DWAL

Exception to the regular broadcast time is every Maundy Thursday to Good Friday when the station operates from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm and Black Saturday when it airs from 6:00 am to 8:00 am and 5:30 pm to 12:00 midnight, after the Easter Vigil.

Hillcrest Mall

In 2013, an application was made to Richmond Hill Town Council to exempt the mall from the Retail Business Holidays Act so that it may open on six public holidays: New Year's Day, Family Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Labour Day, and Thanksgiving.

Hugh Porter

Porter began with 12 successive road race victories, and won a pursuit match in the Good Friday meeting at Herne Hill.

Kevin Kiely

In March 2010 he called for a change to the law which bans selling alcohol on Good Friday and Christmas Day at a time when a rugby match was due to take place in Limerick city.

Leckhampton

He also built Tramway Cottage on Daisybank Road, a site that had been used for a fun fair every Good Friday.

Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival

Although racing in Australia is held every day except Good Friday and Christmas Day, the Group One races in Melbourne are held almost exclusively throughout the carnival, which is traditionally placed between the football and cricket seasons.

Montisi

Procession of the Dead Christ (Good Friday evening), which is carried in procession along Via Umberto I, the statue of the Dead Christ, which is usually located beneath the altar of the church of the Society.

Ranvir Singh

Her first national presenting role came in April 2006 when she co-presented a live BBC Three play on Good Friday, Manchester Passion, which retold the last hours of Jesus Christ.

Rivalries in the National Rugby League

Between 2002 and 2010 inclusive, these two teams played each other in the traditional Good Friday match.

St. John's Priory, Viborg

On Good Friday 1525 he preached Luther's ideas to the congregation at Antvorskov Abbey on Zealand, the headquarters of the Hospitallers in Scandinavia.

Stephen Reay

Reay was the only child of a Scottish clergyman, John Reay, and was born in Montrose, Angus, on 29 March 1782, which was Good Friday.

TTV Super League

The Table Tennis Victoria Super League commenced on Good Friday, 6 April 2007, with its first ever Team Draft.

Visions of Jesus and Mary

She was bedridden as of 1813 and is said to have had visible stigmata which would reopen on Good Friday.


Denial of Peter

In the Scriptural Way of the Cross introduced in 1991 by Pope John Paul II as a version of the Stations of the Cross, and performed each Good Friday at the Colosseum in Rome, the fourth station is the Denial of Peter.

Divine Mercy

Faustina wrote that in her visions Jesus instructed her that the Feast of the Divine Mercy (the Sunday after Easter) be preceded by a Divine Mercy Novena which would begin on Good Friday and conclude on Divine Mercy Sunday.

DXME

It is a 24 hour operating station (except on Mondays where it signs off at midnight to 4:00 AM), except Holy Week each year where it signs off at midnight of Good Friday, and lasts until 4:00 AM of Black Saturday.

Festival Singers of Canada

Founded in 1954 by Elmer Iseler as the Festival Singers of Toronto, the choir was heard first heard on CBC radio in a 1955 Good Friday broadcast of Bach's Christ lag in Todesbanden.

Party Tonight

The album was produced by Tony Visconti and featured tracks from their two previous studio albums - Adventures in Clubland (1982) and Trick of the Light (1983) - and featured its sister single, "Good Friday", released simultaneously.

Ranau

Other celebration includes the Good Friday where one would normally see the Christians in the district going to church congregations during the Holy Week with its culmination is on Good Friday to Holy Saturday and usually ends on Easter Sunday.

Reserved sacrament

This Liturgy is also served on the first three days of Holy Week (but not on Good Friday).

St-Gervais-et-St-Protais

On 29 March 1918, a German shell, fired by the long-range "Paris Gun", fell on the church, killing 88 people and wounding 68 others; the explosion collapsed the roof when a Good Friday service was in progress.

Thangallapally

Muslims celebrate Ramzan (Id-ul-Fitr) and Bakrid, Milad un Nabi, Shab-e-Meraj and Christians celebrate Christmas and Good Friday.

The Purge

Madeinusa, a 2005 film about a village that believes it is impossible to sin from Good Friday to Easter.

Weimarer Passion

At any rate, during this flurry of activity, Bach had also received a commission from Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg to compose and perform a Passion setting for his court for Good Friday (his then Kapellmeister, Christian Friedrich Witt, was on his deathbed).