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

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Passion Sunday

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

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

This was probably the frontal used in Passiontide, i.e., from Passion Sunday until Easter.

From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George

St. Benedict died of a fever, which he caught in ministering to the poor, on the eve of Passion Sunday, A.D.

From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

The Fifth Sunday is called Passion Sunday, from the fact that on that day the Church begins the solemn recital of our Lord's sufferings.

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