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MOVEABLE FEASTS. 



Passion Sunday. — Christ's Thorn. Paliurus acic- 

 leatus. 



Palm Sunday. — Common Palma Christi. Ricimis 

 commu?iis. 



Holy Thursday. — Laurel-leaved Passion-flowei*. 

 Fassiflora rubra. 



Good Friday. — Long-sheathed Anemone. Afie- 

 mone Pulsatilla. Also called Pasque-flower. 



Many conjectures have been made as to the par- 

 ticular tree whose wood furnished the material for 

 the Cross upon which our Blessed Lord was nailed, 

 some naming Poplar {Popidus tre7?iidus), see page 84. 

 The tradition that most commonly prevailed was that 

 which Durantes gives in the following words : — 



''Pes Cedrum est, truncus Cupressus, 

 Oliva supremum, palmaque transversum, 

 Christi sunt in cruce lignum." 



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