Mangalore: The Roman Catholic Church members and other Christian sets such as Protestants of the Christian community, observed “Good Friday” in the churches of DK/Udupi districts in a devotional attitude, with singing and players in chapels, churches and cathedrals and such other shrines to commemorate the “Last Supper” of the Christ, when Christ washed the feet of his 12 (twelve) disciples and took his food (bread and wine) for the last time, before being arrested on Friday by the Roman Police, betrayed by his own disciple, Jude the Iscariot, and sentenced to gallows by carrying his own Cross and then, crucified at the Golgotha hills in the presence of his mother Mary and disciple Mary Magdalene.
The Good Friday is Christ in Christ’s native place (now Israel) is remembered for his death on the Cross as ordained by God, to save his people and their faith in him forever.
Cross-holding journeys were enacted at Infant Jesus shrine, Bikarnakatta, Rosario Church and Milagres Church and elsewhere in Mangalore and Udupi, to help devotees meditate on “Christ on way to Calvary”. The purpose of existence was described in speeches by the bishops. Day-long Prayers were offered even to mend the non-believers in God.