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Holidays: Religious and Secular, 2015
Society and Culture > Calendar & Holidays by Liz Olson Related Links Holidays: Frequently Asked Questions National Holidays Around the World Holiday…Holidays: Religious and Secular, 2016
Society and Culture > Calendar & Holidays by Liz Olson Related Links Holidays: Frequently Asked Questions National Holidays Around the World Holiday…Holidays: Religious and Secular, 2017
Society and Culture > Calendar & Holidays by Liz Olson Related Links Holidays: Frequently Asked Questions National Holidays Around the World Holiday…Boxing Day
Traditional English holiday extends Christmas giving Related Links Boxing Day Quiz Winter Holiday Roundup Bank Holidays Church of England Historians say the holiday…Brewer's: Veni, Creator Spiritus
A hymn of the Roman Breviary used on the Feast of Pentecost. It has been ascribed to Charlemagne, but Mone thinks that Pope Gregory I. was the author. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Mitre
The episcopal mitre symbolises the cloven tongues of fire which descended on the apostles on the day of Pentecost. (Acts ii. 1-12.) Greek and Latin, mitra, a turban. Source: Dictionary…Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Problem
The ProblemI like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles Yet not for all his faith can see Would I…Brewer's: Apparel
Dress. The ornamental parts of the alb, at the lower edge and at the wrists. Catechumens used to talk of putting on their apparels, or fine white surplices, for the feast of Pentecost.…Brewer's: Perth
is Celtic for a bush. The county of Perth is the county of bushes. Fair Maid of Perth. Catherine Glover, daughter of Simon Glover, glover, of Perth. Her lover is Henry Gow, alias Henry…Brewer's: Marriages
Carrier's republican marriages. A device of wholesale slaughter, adopted by Carrier, proconsul of Nantes, in the first French Revolution. It consisted in tying men and women together by…Trending
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