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    An Easter palm (Polish: Palma wielkanocna, Lithuanian: Verba) is a traditional Lithuanian and Polish symbolic decoration associated with Palm Sunday. Barbara...
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    Palm Sunday is the Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an...
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    and penance. Easter-observing Christians commonly refer to the week before Easter as Holy Week, which in Western Christianity begins on Palm Sunday (marking...
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    Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific...
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    Paschalococos disperta, the Rapa Nui palm or Easter Island palm, formerly Jubaea disperta, was the native coccoid palm species of Easter Island. It disappeared from...
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    Holy Week (redirect from Easter Weekend)
    eve of Palm Sunday and culminating in the Easter Morning or Easter Sunrise service begun by the Moravians in 1732. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday,...
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    someone on Easter Monday. In Croatia, it is made of olive twigs, but it is not used for whipping. In some countries, such as Poland, Easter palms or pussy...
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    Easter in Italy (Italian: Pasqua, pronounced [ˈpaskwa]) is one of the country's major holidays. Easter in Italy enters Holy Week with Palm Sunday, Maundy...
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    before Easter, on Palm Sunday, Easter palms are displayed. Traditionally, Easter celebrations begin on Easter Sunday with an Easter Vigil, followed by...
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    Roman Rite, "Passion Sunday" and "Palm Sunday" are both names for the Sunday before Easter, officially called "Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion". The...
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