The Statue of the Dead Lord being brought back to the church.
MALACCA: For Catholics and non-Christians alike, making it to Malacca’s St Peter’s Church listed as the country’s oldest Catholic edifice (built in 1710) to commemorate Holy Week celebrations, notably Palm Sunday and Good Friday, spells a time for pilgrimage, homage, thanksgiving and reunion.
The ceremonies and rituals witnessed on these two days are unique in Malaysia and still continue to be laced with all aspects and facets introduced by the Augustinian missionaries and adhered to fervently by local Portuguese-Eurasian Catholics during the Portuguese tenure of the Malacca between 1511 and 1641.
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