On Holy Thursday ... the sanctuary to an “altar of repose,” and the people go with the Eucharistic Christ in a procession. The transported is sometimes surrounded by decorations of greenery ...

On Thursday evening and Good Friday morning, in the hours the Holy Eucharist is in this tabernacle on the altar of repose, Christians do a sort of pilgrimage to visit seven churches – in twos or ...

Catholics and many Eastern Christians around the world are observing Holy Thursday with solemn liturgies ... known as the ‘altar of repose,’ where believers keep vigil in silent prayer.