Ascension Day
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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
The island was discovered by the Portuguese navigator, Jo�o da Nova, on Ascension Day 1501, and was occasionally visited thereafter by ships.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
