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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 615 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TENEBRAE (
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Lat. for " shadows," " darkness ")  , the name for an
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office sung in
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Roman
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Catholic churches on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday,
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Thursday, and
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Friday of
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Holy
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Week . The name is derived, according to Durandus (Ration.,
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lib. vi. cap . 72, n . 2), from the fact that " the
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church on these days cultivates darkness (tenebras colit): firstly because it is in sorrow and grief on
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account of the
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Lord's
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Passion, and because for three days it celebrates his exequies since for three days he was dead; secondly, the office of
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Tenebrae symbolizes the darkness that
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fell on the
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face of the
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earth while the
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Sun of
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justice was hung upon the
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cross," &c . The falling darkness is symbolized by a
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peculiar and singularly impressive ceremony (see
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LIGHTS, CEREMONIAL) .

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