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  • 21Trinity Sunday — noun eighth Sunday after Easter • Hypernyms: ↑Christian holy day * * * Trinity Sunday [Trinity Sunday] the Sunday after ↑Whit Sunday and an important festival in the Christian year …

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  • 22Trinity Sunday — /trɪnəti ˈsʌndeɪ/ (say trinuhtee sunday) noun Christianity the Sunday next after Pentecost or Whit Sunday, observed as a festival in honour of the Trinity …

  • 23Palm Sunday — Synonyms and related words: Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday,… …

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  • 24Whitsun — Whit|sun [ˈwıtsən] n [U and C] BrE 1.) also .Whit Sunday the seventh Sunday after Easter, when Christians celebrate the ↑Holy Spirit coming down from heaven = ↑pentecost 2.) also Whit|sun|tide [ˈwıtsəntaıd] the period around Whitsun …

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  • 25List of holidays by country — Contents 1 Afghanistan 2 Albania 3 Algeria 4 Andorra …

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  • 26Monteverdi Choir — The Monteverdi Choir was founded in 1964 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for a performance of the Monteverdi Vespers (1610) in King s College Chapel, Cambridge. A specialist Baroque ensemble, the Choir has become famous for its stylistic conviction… …

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  • 27Pentecost — For the Ancient Israel Pentecost , and the Jewish holiday, see Shavuot. For other uses, see Pentecost (disambiguation). Pentecost An Eastern Orthodox icon of Pentecost. This is the Icon of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. At the… …

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  • 28Mozarabic Rite — • The name Mozarabic Rite is given to the rite used generally in Spain and in what afterwards became Portugal from the earliest times of which we have any information down to the latter part of the eleventh century, and still surviving in the… …

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  • 29Whitsun —    The English name for the Church festival otherwise called Pentecost, held on the seventh Sunday after Easter as the commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit and the inspiration of the Apostles. The derivation of the word Whitsun is… …

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  • 30List of Bach cantatas by liturgical function — This is a list of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in order of their intended use in the Lutheran liturgical calendar. The name of each cantata is followed by its BWV number and the date of its first performance, insofar as it can be… …

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