Two thousand gather at the 23rd Way of the Cross over the Brooklyn Bridge
For the 23rd year, Brooklyn was the starting point for a solemn Good Friday procession that followed the Way of the Cross over the Brooklyn Bridge.
According to organizers, the March 30 event saw approximately 2,000 people attend the event, which combined the procession with Gospel passages, choral music and selected readings to contemplate the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The event began at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. James, 250 Cathedral Place, as Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan greeted participants in the procession over the Brooklyn Bridge. The walk passed through Zuccotti Park and concluded at St. Peter’s Church, on Barclay Street.