Good Friday: in Jerusalem, some Franciscans on Via Dolorosa

From our correspondent in Jerusalem

The main thing was to respect tradition. A handful of Franciscans therefore carried out, on Friday, the Way of the Cross in the Old City of Jerusalem confined and forbidden access to non-residents.

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The brothers, official guardians of the holy places and present for eight centuries in the Holy Land, followed the complete route of Via Dolorosa, which ends at the Holy Sepulcher with the fourteenth station on the presumed tomb of Jesus. In the deserted and silent alleys, the Israeli security forces outnumbered the residents huddled in homes where large families live, often in difficult conditions.

They were on the other hand less numerous than the journalists dispersed on the route, in the strictest respect of the instructions of social distancing when the police officers did not block their road. Masked and gloved, the strange procession of men in robes of dress, reporters and police

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