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n. - (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments; Seventh Sunday after Easter.

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  • … The term Pentecost was first used by Christians to refer to this seven-week period as a unit: "the Pentecost," or the fifty days.
  • And truly he did not speak falsely in saying so; for that festival, which we call Pentecost, did then fall out to be the next day to the
  • Just a reminder that Pentecost is nine days away, so the "original" novena (nine days of prayer) starts today.
  • ... and thus in the Fathers the miracle of Pentecost is the miraculous understanding of languages -- the undoing of Babel.
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