Holy Week commemorates the seven days leading up to Easter. It begins with the commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, marks the betrayal of Jesus on Spy Wednesday, cl
The entry of Jesus and his disciples into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, is the last week of Lent, between Palm Sunday and the dusk of Maundy Thursday. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Palm Sunday along with the Saturday of Lazarus marks the two-day transition between the 40 days of Great Lent and Holy Week.
A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova, Seville by Alfred Dehodencq (1851)
Holy Tuesday in Venezuela
Maundy Thursday ceremony in a Church in Wales parish church during a Maundy Thursday service of worship
Holy Saturday is the final day of Holy Week, between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and when Christians prepare for the Christian feast of Easter.
Statue of Christ in the tomb by Gregorio Fernández. (Monastery of San Joaquín y Santa Ana, Valladolid)
The icon of Holy and Great Saturday, portraying the Harrowing of Hades
Divine Liturgy of Holy Saturday in a Greek Orthodox church in the United States