Holy Week
the week preceding Easter Sunday.
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How to use Holy Week in a sentence
A comparison of the four narratives clearly indicates the order of events upon the several days of the Holy Week.
His Last Week | William E. BartonBut a free scope was allowed to their avarice, which was glutted, even in the Holy Week, by the pillage of Constantinople.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward GibbonThe Pope always goes there the last day of the Holy Week, and stays there all the summer.
The Greville Memoirs | Charles C. F. GrevilleThe ceremonies of the Holy Week in Rome are a most solemn, and to most minds, affecting religious drama.
As it was, the air was thundery and ominous through all the solemn days of the Holy Week.
The Perpetual Curate | Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
British Dictionary definitions for Holy Week
the week preceding Easter Sunday
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