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Ascension Day

NOUN
Holy Thursday
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Focus is on the Trump-Xi meeting, but trade is quiet due to the Ascension Day holiday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The monarch doesn’t celebrate the anniversary of the date she became queen, known as Ascension Day, as it is also the anniversary of her father’s death.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Festa della Sensa, a 12th-century observance of the city’s marriage to the sea on Ascension Day, offered only so much economic impact.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2019

As a famous letter written by his disciple Cuthbert tells it, the Venerable Bede lay surrounded by colleagues, who took their leave in order to attend the morning’s Ascension Day service.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2014

On Ascension Day, the Ambassador had been admitted to an audience, the first since the unprosperous discussion at Greenwich.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.




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