Whit Sunday

It was Whit Sunday and they agreed to observe this feast.

A service is still held here by Methodists every Whit Sunday.

The municipal holiday is the Monday after the Whit Sunday.

And the night before was Whit Sunday.

At one period in its history, it became part of the Sunday school Whit Sunday activities.

Whit Sunday feast day.

Travelling only at night the men reached the Sognefjord on Whit Sunday 1940.

Ethelbert was reputedly baptised there on Whit Sunday, 597.

Cook named the islands as he believed he passed through the area on the Christian festival day of Whit Sunday.

On the eve of the Whit Sunday (Pentecost) 1810 32 houses and 16 barns burned down.

Whit Sunday gathering of (mostly ethnic Hungarian) Catholics.

Of the few direct references to Christianity, this for Whit Sunday 1942 is characteristically oblique:

The origin of the name "Whit Sunday" is generally attributed to the white garments formerly worn by those newly baptized on this feast.

Ian Bradley was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire on Whit Sunday 1950.

The feast is also called Whit Sunday, or Whitsun, especially in England, where the following Monday was traditionally a public holiday.

The week following Whit Sunday is known as "Whitsuntide" or "Whit week".

Historical documents show that the Palio was first celebrates in 1339, in occasion of the Whit Sunday festivity.

The day after Whit Sunday 1549, a priest at Sampford Courtenay was persuaded to read the old mass.

Bach composed this cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the first day of Pentecost (Whit Sunday).

It was an initially successful venture with 14,000 people visiting Rosherville Gardens on Whit Sunday in 1886, many of whom arrived by rail.

On Whit Sunday 1927 he became the first English pianist to perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue from memory.

The palace chapel was inaugurated on Whit Sunday, May 14, 1826, to mark the 1,000 anniversary of the introduction of Christianity to Denmark.

Each year on Whit Sunday bread and cheese is thrown from the wall of the castle to local 'Dole Claimers' dressed in medieval costume.

Ælfstan anticipated events by receiving the royal assent on the Saturday, and arrived in Thanet on Whit Sunday itself.

After a little more than two years of married life she was attacked by 'a hot burning ague,' of which she died on Whit Sunday, 31 May 1601.