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LOW SUNDAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 78 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOW See also:SUNDAY , the first Sunday after See also:Easter, so called because of its proximity to the " highest" of all feasts and Sundays, Easter. It was also known formerly as See also:White Sunday, being still officially termed by the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church See also:Dominica in albis, " Sunday in white garments," in allusion to the white garments anciently worn on this See also:day by those who had been baptized and received into the Church just before Easter. See also:Alb Sunday, Quasimodo and, in the See also:Greek Church, Antipascha, and 6EVTEp071-pWT77 KeptaKil (literally " second-first Sunday," i.e. the second Sunday after the first) were other names for the day.

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