Passion Sunday

American  

noun

1. the fifth Sunday in Lent, being the second week before Easter.

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Passion Sunday British  

noun

1. the fifth Sunday in Lent (the second Sunday before Easter), when Passiontide begins

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Etymology

Origin of Passion Sunday

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Passion Sunday

In the meantime, Stephen had pushed on to the north, leaving on Passion Sunday, with orders from Fray Marcos not to go further than fifty or sixty leagues ahead.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James

Against those who misuse passages of Scripture, and who pride themselves in finding one which seems to favour their error.—The chapter for Vespers, Passion Sunday, the prayer for the king.

From Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

This happened on Saturday, the eve of Passion Sunday.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Passion Sunday, the fifth Sunday in Lent, which is succeeded by what is called the Passion Week.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The new Mission, all controversy being settled, was formally dedicated on Passion Sunday, April 4, 1824, by Altimira, to San Francisco Solano, "the great apostle to the Indies."

From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by George Wharton James

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