Ascension Day
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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
Ascension Day, May 5, was long ago chosen as the day Church & State would meet for the first time in the Cathedral choir and sanctuary.
From Time Magazine Archive
War declared by U. S. A. against Spain, April 21st; death of Gladstone, Ascension Day, May 19th; independence of Cuba secured by treaty, August 12th.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May
