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Definition of Holy saturday
1. Noun. The Saturday before Easter; the last day of Lent.
Definition of Holy saturday
1. Noun. The Saturday immediately after Good Friday and before Easter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Saturday
Literary usage of Holy saturday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the primitive Church holy saturday was known as Great, or Grand, Saturday,
holy saturday, the Angelic Night, the Vigil of Easter, ..."
2. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"At Rome the houses of the faithful are annually blessed on holy saturday. The cure
or a priest of the parish in a beretta and white surplice, a prayer book ..."
3. Journal of Theological Studies by Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press) (1906)
"AN ANCIENT OFFICE FOR holy saturday. POSTSCRIPT. ... in five South Italian MSS
cornes between the lessons of holy saturday and the blessing of the font, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"On the ceremonies of holy saturday or Easter Saturday see EASTER, I., 4, §§ 2-3.
In the Greek Orthodox Church the " great Sabbath " 6. ..."
5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The fourth day is called "Spy Wednesday ;'" the fifth ia " Maundy Thursday ; "
the sixth is " Good Friday : " and the last " holy saturday " or the " Great ..."
6. Journal of Theological Studies (1905)
"As a matter of fact Confirmation was always administered after the holy saturday
baptism, and penitents expelled at the beginning of Lent were received back ..."
7. A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Protestant Episcopal Church by John Henry Hobart, Robert Nelson (1851)
"holy saturday, or EASTER EVEN. A FAST. Q. WHAT it the fast of this day designed
to commemorate ? A. The fast of Easter Even is designed to commemorate the ..."
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