Palm Sunday
noun
: the Sunday before Easter celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem
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The festivities begin on Palm Sunday and last until Easter Sunday, reaching their apex in the early morning hours of Good Friday.
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Nina Aquino, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
Its fronds are strewn across churchyards worldwide during Palm Sunday processions to symbolize Christ’s last entry into Jerusalem, and palm leaves cover the Sukkot booths during the annual Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles as called for in Leviticus.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Last Palm Sunday, 50 Christians were similarly slaughtered in nearby Bassa.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
The attacks in April included a strike that killed 35 people, many out strolling on sidewalks on Palm Sunday in the northeastern city of Sumy, and another that killed 19, including nine children, when a missile hit a playground in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 2 May 2025
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Nina Aquino, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
Its fronds are strewn across churchyards worldwide during Palm Sunday processions to symbolize Christ’s last entry into Jerusalem, and palm leaves cover the Sukkot booths during the annual Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles as called for in Leviticus.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Last Palm Sunday, 50 Christians were similarly slaughtered in nearby Bassa.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
The attacks in April included a strike that killed 35 people, many out strolling on sidewalks on Palm Sunday in the northeastern city of Sumy, and another that killed 19, including nine children, when a missile hit a playground in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 2 May 2025
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“Palm Sunday.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Palm%20Sunday. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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