Assisi Good Friday Morning Procession

On Good Friday morning, following an early service at the Cathedral of San Rufino, the "Processione per il trasferimento del 'Cristo Morto'" or "Procession for transferring of the 'Dead Christ'" is held. It follows a roundabout route from the Cathedral to the Basilica di San Francesco, stopping at convents along the way.

It seemed there were about 500 people in the procession as we set out through Assisi's narrow streets.

Approaching the Basilica di Santa Chiara.

Here the procession is filing back out of the Basilica di Santa Chiara.

Some members of the "confraternite", or brotherhoods, carry crosses and walk barefoot.

The wooden image of Christ is from a 1561 crucifix by an unknown author. Its home is above an altar in the Cathedral of San Rufino.

Ahead is the center of Assisi, the Piazza del Comune. The former Temple of Minerva columns, seen in the center of the picture on this side of the bell tower, are over 2000 years old.

And then the procession passes through another part of town, stopping at the Convent of Santa Croce.

Soon, the Basilica di San Francesco comes into sight.

As well as the valley below.

Continuing down toward the lower church of the Basilica.

And then going in for prayers.

Pace e bene e ciao.