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PASSION WEEK

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 888 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PASSION See also:WEEK , the fifth week in See also:Lent, beginning with Passion See also:Sunday (See also:dominica passions or de passione domini), so called from very See also:early times because with it begins the more See also:special See also:commemoration of See also:Christ's passion. Passion week is often incorrectly identified with See also:Holy week (q.v.). In the See also:north of See also:England Passion Sunday was formerly known as Carle or Carling Sunday, a name corrupted from " care," in allusion to the sorrowful See also:season which the See also:day heralds.

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