Celebrating Good Friday in Assisi: World War II Jewish Refugees Remembered
The evocative early morning Assisi Good Friday procession is not to be missed. The 17th-century Cristo Morto image is carried through the Assisi medieval alleyways on a funeral bier, with stops at cloistered convents for veneration of the nuns. The route varies, year to year. I always try to go ahead of the procession to…