Holy Week
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Holy Week is the most sacred week in the liturgical year in Christianity. For all Christian traditions, it is a moveable observance. In Eastern Christianity, which also calls it Great Week, it is the week following Great Lent and Lazarus Saturday, starting on the evening of Palm Sunday and concluding on the evening of Great Saturday. In Western Christianity, Holy Week is the sixth and last week of Lent, beginning with Palm Sunday and concluding on Holy Saturday.
A Tenebrae liturgy held at a Roman Catholic parish church on Spy Wednesday
The chancel of a Lutheran church decorated with red paraments, the liturgical colour of the last week of Lent, Holy Week, in Lutheran and Anglican Churches
A Washing of Feet ceremony on Holy Thursday in the Armenian Orthodox church
Great Lent
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Great Lent, or the Great Fast, is the most important fasting season of the church year within many denominations of Eastern Christianity. It is intended to prepare Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Pascha (Easter).
An Orthodox church in the Czech Republic vested in lenten colors (Třebíč).
The Crucifixion. Icon by Theophanes the Cretan (16th century, Stavronikita monastery, Mount Athos).
Saint Gregory Dialogus, who is credited with compiling the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts.
The Last Judgment is a repeating theme of Great Lent (17th-century icon from Lipie, Poland).