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Quadragesima may
refer to: Lent, the
Christian period of fasting,
prayer and
almsgiving Quadragesima Sunday This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated...
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Quadragesima Sunday (Latin:
Dominica in
Quadragesima, "Sunday in the Fortieth"), also
known as
Invocabit Sunday, is the
traditional name for the First...
- Lent (Latin:
Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is the
solemn Christian religious observance in the
liturgical year in
preparation for Easter. It
echoes the 40...
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Quadragesima Galliarum (lit. "Gallic one-fortieth"), also
written ****X
Galliarum or XL Galliarum, was a 2.5% tax
charged on
trade in the
Gallic provinces...
- 2nd century, with a
tombstone referring to it as the
Statio Turicensis Quadragesima Galliarum ("Zurich post for
collecting the 2.5%
value tax of the Galliae")...
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Latin word for "seventieth." Likewise, ****agesima, Quinquagesima, and
Quadragesima mean "sixtieth," "fiftieth," and "fortieth" respectively. The significance...
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missionaries to
refer to the
Lenten period or
Ember Days (ad
tempora quadragesima), Fridays, and
other Christian holy days.
Ember Days, or
quatuor anni...
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Portuguese word, 'tempero,' seasoning, and
refers to the
tempora quadragesima,
forty days of Lent
during which eating meat was forbidden,
another example...
- Switzerland. It was used by the
Roman Empire for the
collection of the
Quadragesima Galliarum. In
Christian tradition,
Agaunum is
known as the
place of martyrdom...
- of Lent as
extending at
least to
Wednesday of Holy W****, as in: "In
Quadragesima autem a
Feria IV
Cinerum usque ad
Feriam IV
Majoris Hebdomadae ..." (Ritus...
