For over a thousand years churches have been burning branches in a special service leading up to the Easter season. On Feb.

The Holy Week is the week leading up to Easter and is held in remembrance ... The tradition of palm branches on Palm Sunday actually originates with the Jewish festival of Sukkoth, also called ...

This is just the beginning of the 46 days until Easter Sunday. As the holy days fall on a different date each year, here are ...

“They took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him ... Palm Sunday falls on the Sunday before Good Friday and Easter. As per the Christian scriptures, as Jesus approached Bethphage and ...

Yet the traditional Kashubian Easter palm is nothing more than a few sprigs of pussy ... This is why there is an old custom to visit your neighbours and lash them with a palm branch, saying: ‘Wierzba ...

which falls a week before Easter, Jesus is said to have entered Jerusalem on a donkey with the happy people welcoming him by waving palm branches. To commemorate the event, many churches provide ...

Easter is the most important festival in the ... Crowds of people came out of the city to greet him, throwing down palm branches on the road. Anglican and Roman Catholic churches give out small ...