Welcome to Good Friday 2020. People think of "Good Friday" is being the most ironically-named day in the liturgical calendar. It's not. "Good" is an archaic synonym for "holy." It's also "good" in the sense that, without this day, there would be no Easter Sunday, no resurrection, no death for our sins. So, yes, it is "Good" Friday in both meanings.
For the Holy Week Phot-o' the Day for Good Friday 2020, it is time to revisit Fatima. The crucifix is the High Cross, a very large stylized cross (it's a bent ribbon of steel on that cross, not a recognizable human form). The High Cross is located on the plaza opposite the Santuário de Fátima, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, in front of the Basílica da Santíssima Trindade, the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity.
Behind the Cruz Alta, the High Cross, is a giant rosary. Biggest I've ever seen. No sure what the "world records" folks have to say about it, but it's without a doubt the biggest rosary my eyes have rested upon.
I think Fatima is the most important of the Marian apparition sites around the world. Just my opinion. You could say Lourdes, or Medjugorje, or Guadalupe, or somewhere else I'm neglecting to mention, and you would be just as right.
Visited September 2017, on the 100th anniversary of penultimate apparition in the series of apparitions seen by the three shepherd children over six consecutive months in 1917.
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