Missionaries from several organizations held a large wooden cross during a morning procession up Chestnut Street on Good Friday, the Christian religious holiday that remembers the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
According to the Rev. Chris Walsh of St. Raymond of Penafort Church in Mount Airy, for the past several years missionaries have gathered to walk the cross along Chestnut Street headed to St. Patrick's Church at 20th and Locust streets for a Good Friday event that will include living stations of the cross.
"This is our fifth year to celebrate our beliefs and to ask others if there is anything that we can pray for," he said.
Mary Cris Guerrin, a missionary who moved to Philadelphia from Mexico, was marching at 8th and Chestnut Streets about 10 a.m. Friday morning. She said the group planned to "be out all morning" and were excited to reenact the story of Jesus Christ carrying the cross to Calvary, where the Bible says he was crucified.