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Definition of Passion sunday
1. Noun. Second Sunday before Easter.
Definition of Passion sunday
1. Noun. The fifth Sunday in Lent, the second Sunday before Easter, the first day in Passiontide. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Passion Sunday
| Pastafarian Pastafarianism Pastafarians Pasternak Pasteur Pasteur's effect |
Literary usage of Passion sunday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"On 30 Aug., 1809, the privilege of the feast (double major) was granted to the
Diocese of Leghorn for the Friday before passion sunday. ..."
2. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"PASSION-SUNDAY.—The Fifth Sunday in Lent, in England called also ... The whole
season, from Passion-Sunday to Easter-even is called " Holy-tide/' ..."
3. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand (1905)
"Perhaps passion sunday might fall on the 12th of March, the year the calendar
was written or printed in. However that be, one cannot doubt of their having ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... tfe character of a passion sunday, consequently tbi of mourning. It was still
the sam» 3. In the way at the time of Leo the Great ii. West. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... passion sunday, and the Western Church treated it as a day, not of rejoicing,
but of mourning. The earliest record in the West of the blessing of the ..."
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