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Sazerac · 01-21-2002, 10:59 AM

"Good" isn't a very good translation from the Latin. It should be "Holy", not "Good", but the Anglo-Saxon bungling of the translation stuck.

"Good Friday", or "Holy Friday", in the Christian religions is the day that Christ died on the cross, coinciding with the feast of the Jewish Passover. It's the Friday immediately following the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox (otherwise known as the Pascal Moon). The Sunday following that is Easter.

This year, Good Friday will occur on March 29, 2002.

-Sazerac

01-21-2002, 10:59 AM	#9
Sazerac Ironworks Moderator Join Date: January 7, 2001 Location: Monroe, LA Age: 61 Posts: 7,387	"Good" isn't a very good translation from the Latin. It should be "Holy", not "Good", but the Anglo-Saxon bungling of the translation stuck. "Good Friday", or "Holy Friday", in the Christian religions is the day that Christ died on the cross, coinciding with the feast of the Jewish Passover. It's the Friday immediately following the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox (otherwise known as the Pascal Moon). The Sunday following that is Easter. This year, Good Friday will occur on March 29, 2002. -Sazerac __________________ "And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams, Are where thy grey eye glances, and where thy footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams..."