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 Translation for 'Holy Saturday' from English to Russian
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Великая суббота {ж}
Holy Saturday
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субботний {adj}Saturday [attr.]
суббота {ж}Saturday <Sat., Sa.>
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Страстная неделя {ж}
Holy Week
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Чистый четверг {м}
Holy Thursday
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евхаристия {ж}
Holy Communion
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Святой Грааль {м}
the Holy Grail
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Воздвижение {с} (Честного и Животворящего) Креста Господня
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Нихуя себе! [неценз.]Holy fuck! [vulg.] [used to express amazement]
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Usage Examples English
  • The Feria de la Primavera y la Paz (Spring and Peace Fair) runs concurrent with Holy Week, especially on Holy Saturday with music and costumes.
  • The services of Good Friday and Holy Saturday morning are patterned in part on the Orthodox Christian burial service, and funeral lamentations.
  • The day after Good Friday and before Easter Sunday is traditionally known as Holy Saturday.
  • blessing of decorative baskets with a sampling of Easter eggs and other symbolic foods, is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions on Holy Saturday.
  • The Catholic Church regards Good Friday and Holy Saturday as the Paschal fast, in accordance with Article 110 of Sacrosanctum Concilium.

  • For churches that celebrate the Easter Vigil on the night of Holy Saturday, the ceremonial lighting of the Paschal candle is one of the most solemn moments of the service.
  • It begins on Ash Wednesday and, if the penitential days of Good Friday and Holy Saturday are included, lasts for forty days, since the six Sundays within the season are not counted.
  • Plange quasi virgo ("Lament like a virgin"), the third responsory for Holy Saturday, is loosely based on verses from the Book of Joel: the title comes from Joel 1:8.
  • Thus, Saint Boniface explained to Pope Zachary that he produced the new fire of Holy Saturday by means of a crystal lens concentrating the rays of the sun.
  • The Cross Country Cycling Classic, also known as the "cross country" race or the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic, is considered one of the most important Belize sports events.

  • In Western traditions, the day is usually called Holy Saturday, although in the Moravian Church, the day is referred to as the Great Sabbath and in the Anglican Communion, the Book of Common Prayer refers to the day as Easter Even.
  • For example, the "Easter Vigil" is held in the hours of darkness between sunset on Holy Saturday and sunrise on Easter Day — most commonly in the evening of Holy Saturday or midnight — and is the first celebration of Easter, days traditionally being considered to begin at sunset.
  • Holy Saturday the traditional dish served for lunch is "Skidne æg" (Dirty eggs), the name referres to fact that the homes were usually dirty on Holy Saturday, as no work and no cleaning or laundry would be done on the two holidays: Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.
  • The "Baptism of Poland" refers to the ceremony when the first ruler of the Polish state, Mieszko I and much of his court, converted to Christianity on the Holy Saturday of 14 April 966.
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