Septuagesima
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Septuagesima () is the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is sometimes applied to the seventy days starting on Septuagesima Sunday and ending on the Saturday after Easter. Alternatively, the term is sometimes applied also to the period sometimes called pre-Lent that begins on this day and ends on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins.
Key facts
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- Septuagesima
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- christian
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- Illustration of the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard for Septuagesima
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- Violet
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- Preparation for Lent
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- Third Sunday before Ash Wednesday (63 calendar days before Easter Sunday)
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- Pre-Lent
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Origins of the term
- Devotional and liturgical practices
- Catholic usage after 1969
- Lutheran usage
- Anglican usage
- Polish National Catholic Church usage
- Eastern usage
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- External links
Septuagesima () is the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is sometimes applied to the seventy days starting on Septuagesima Sunday and ending on the Saturday after Easter. Alternatively, the term is sometimes applied also to the period sometimes called pre-Lent that begins on this day and ends on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins.
The other two Sundays in this period of the liturgical year are called Sexagesima and Quinquagesima, the latter sometimes also called Shrove Sunday. The earliest date on which Septuagesima Sunday can occur is January 18 (Easter falling on March 22 in a common year) and the latest is February 22 (Easter falling on April 25 in a leap year).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Septuagesima” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.