The Friday before Easter Sunday, on which the Crucifixion of Christ is commemorated in the Christian Church. It is traditionally a day of fasting and penance.Children can take part in an Easter Trail on Good Friday and Easter Sunday at East Riddlesden Hall....
If Good Friday and Easter Monday occur outside the standard break they are taken as a freestanding long weekend.
Her passing was truly an Easter death - poised between Good Friday and Easter Day.
Origin
From good, in the sense 'holy, observed as a holy day'.