What is Good Friday?

Good Friday, observed by Christians worldwide as the day Jesus Christ was crucified, is history’s most paradoxically named event.  It commemorates a brutal execution that, paradoxically, became the cornerstone of a faith now followed by over 2 billion people. But how did an ancient Roman method of capital punishment become a holy day marked by prayer and fasting?  The historical crucifixion The story begins in 1st-century Jerusalem under Roman occupation. Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew