Northern Ireland

Passion plays held throughout Ireland to mark Good Friday

Young people took part in a procession from St Louis House in west Belfast to nearby St Michael's Church to mark Good Friday. Picture by Hugh Russell
Young people took part in a procession from St Louis House in west Belfast to nearby St Michael's Church to mark Good Friday. Picture by Hugh Russell Young people took part in a procession from St Louis House in west Belfast to nearby St Michael's Church to mark Good Friday. Picture by Hugh Russell

THE Passion of Christ was marked by events throughout Ireland on Good Friday.

In Belfast, young people from St Louis House took part in their traditional Stations of the Cross procession from Hillhead Crescent to St Michael's Church on Finaghy Road North.

The annual ‘Good Friday carrying of the cross walk of witness’ was also held in Lisburn city centre, with Presbyterian Moderator Dr Frank Sellar and Church of Ireland Bishop of Connor Alan Abernethy among those taking part.

Meanwhile, worshippers gathered at St Brigid's Shrine in her birthplace of Faughart, Co Louth to mark Good Friday.

In Jerusalem, pilgrims followed the Via Dolorosa walk, believed to be the route of Christ as he carried his Cross, culminating at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where the crucifixion took place.

Some of the plays of Christ's trial and death have become renowned for their size, particularly in the Mexico City borough of Iztapalapa, where the re-enactment of events during Holy Week has become a major tourist attraction.