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Passion Week   /pˈæʃən wik/   Listen
Passion Week

noun
1.
The week before Easter.  Synonym: Holy Week.






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"Passion Week" Quotes from Famous Books



... us to appreciate this remarkable incident of our Lord's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The first of these is its date. It apparently occurred on the Sunday of the Passion Week. The Friday saw the crosses on Calvary. The night before, Jesus had sat at the modest feast that was prepared in Bethany, where Lazarus was one of the guests, Martha was the busy servant, and Mary poured out the lavish treasures of her love upon His feet. The resurrection of ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... Booth's Edge at the beginning of Passion week, and had been there ever since. He had refrained, at Marjorie's entreaty, from speaking of her to her parents; and they, too, ruled by their daughter, had held their tongues on the matter. Everything else, however, had been discussed—the effect of the squire's apostasy, the ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson

... not see Beiner, who stood over you with the axe reared aloft? Why, it was an utter folly, for forthwith on seeing me likely to do anything, he would have driven that axe into your head." They rode now home to Lea-shaws; and Lent wears and Passion Week ...
— Laxdaela Saga - Translated from the Icelandic • Anonymous



Words linked to "Passion Week" :   ecclesiastical calendar, week, church calendar, hebdomad



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