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

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