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

Example Sentences

After this we continued our course, and on Passion Sunday we reached Samboanga.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 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 Robertson, James Alexander

Thus the 6th Sunday is called Palm Sunday; the 5th, Passion Sunday.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James

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 James, George Wharton

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 Nuttall, P. Austin

There was a silence until a well-informed little girl breathed through her nose that it was called Passion Sunday.

From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton