The 'Good' of 'Good Friday'

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What is the history of this term?

Scraggs

According to wiki

'It is likely that the name "Good Friday" came from the earlier English name, "Godes Friday," meaning "God's Friday." In much the same way as "God be with ye" was shortened to "goodbye," so did "Godes Friday" become "Good Friday.

The Dutch name Goede Vrijdag translates as "Good Friday". Other languages refer to this day in different ways.

In the Holy Land, Good Friday is known as "Big Friday." In Germany it is "Karfreitag", an Old German word meaning "Friday of lamentation", although this meaning is not obvious to speakers of modern German. In Armenia it is called "High Friday (Ավագ Ուրբաթ)". In Russia it is called "Passion Friday" (Strastnaja Pjatnitsa).

* Great Friday: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and in the Eastern Orthodox Church generally
* Holy Friday: Latin America, Spain (Viernes Santo), France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil (Sexta-Feira Santa), Philippines (Mahal na Araw or Biyernes Santo), Vietnam (Thứ sáu Tuần Thánh), Japan(聖金曜日)
* Long Friday: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland
* Jesus' Crucifixion Day: China (耶稣受难日)'

hullaballoo

Lol, "Long Friday" - that's because there's no drinking. Any other day of the week and I wouldn't mind.

No offence intended just in case any staunch religious people read this.

biko

Actually I only seen pubs close in Éire on this day. They're open everywhere else afaik.
Just talked to a friend in the US and he was pissing himself, "pubs closed in Ire-laand (his pronunciation) AHAHA, it's 2007, not 1807".

Hey, maybe in Australia it's "G'Friday"