YORK Minster will hold traditional Stations of the Cross services every Friday, at 11.30am, from now until Friday, February 27.

On Sunday, March 29 – Palm Sunday – there will be a procession from St Helen’s Square to the Minster, lead by a donkey, followed by a service at 10am.

Through Holy Week there will be services on Maunday Thursday, April 2; Good Friday, April 3; Easter Saturday, April 4 and Easter Sunday, April 5.

The Minster’s Easter Garden will also be set up in the North Transept under the Five Sisters Window from Palm Sunday until Pentecost on Sunday, May 24.

Around five-metres long, the garden depicts key scenes from the Easter story.

Starting on Palm Sunday with just the tomb and three crosses, new elements will be added including palm branches, 30 pieces of silver, a crown of thorns and three nails and material representing Jesus’ burial cloth.

During the Easter Vigil on Easter Saturday, the tomb will be opened and illuminated and the garden festooned with flowers to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection, and it will also be blessed by the Archbishop of York.