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                        Speakers lined the length of the Brooklyn Bridge projecting gospel hymns sung by a walking choir while hundreds of people, with colorful rosaries dangling from their wrists, processed slowly towards Manhattan in the early afternoon sunlight on Good Friday. At intermittent locations across the bridge, priests leading the surging crowd stopped and read gospel verses with short reflections before moving to the next stop. The annual event – Way of the Cross Over the Brooklyn Bridge – began at St. James Cathedral-Basilica in Brooklyn and ended at St. Peter’s Church in Manhattan and is a Catholic celebration of the 14 Stations