* Pentecost – 49 days after Easter ( 50th day of Easter )

* Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday – the day after Pentecost

Some modern Church uses also preserve the idea of an eight-day period, starting and finishing on the same day of the week, and retain the name " octave " for them ; for example, many churches observe an annual " Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity " on 18 – 25 January or in the week that begins with Pentecost Sunday.

Among Christians, Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Twelve apostles and other followers of Jesus as described in the Acts of the Apostles 2: 1 – 31.

" Then the greatest event in history with exception of Jesus ' Resurrection, took place in Acts 2: 1 – 2, " And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe declared Pentecost " das liebliche Fest " – the lovely Feast, in a selection by the same name in his Reineke Fuchs.

– Ripe strawberries at Pentecost mean a good wine crop.

* May 19 – Pentecost ( Western Christianity ).

* Shavuot ( Pentecost ) – Fiftieth day counted from Passover, normally 6 Sivan

On Rosh Hashanah and other full holidays ( Day of Atonement, Ingathering of the harvest ( Sukkot ), Passover and the Feast of Weeks – Pentecost ) a single Priest perfected two sacrifices in honor of the full holiday, ( Note that festivals such as Hanukah and Purim, are not considered full holidays requiring an extra sacrifice ).

* CASTILE Captain Pentecost Mitchell ( 1861 – 1933 ) discovered iron ore on this location in 1886.

Nyborg church-or Church of Our Lady, which is the real name-was built between 1388 – 1428 and was dedicated to Jesus ' mother, Mary, on the opening during Pentecost 1428.

* Messe de la Pentecôte (" Pentecost mass "), organ ( 1949 – 50 )

The choir's recordings include two discs of Palestrina on the Hyperion label – the Missa Hodie Christus Natus Est with motets for Advent and Christmas, and the Missa Dum Complerentur with Pentecost motets and plainchant.

The United Holy Church of America is an outgrowth of the great revival that began with the early outpouring of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, when the 120 were filled with the Holy Ghost ( Acts 2: 1 – 4 ).

John XXII ( 1316 – 1334 ) ordered the feast for the entire Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost.

* Sean Pentecost, drums 1993 – 1995, 1998 – 2004

He described the Jewish feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles as ones that " pre-figure and typify the whole Church Age, beginning with the death of Jesus on the cross, and consummating in " the manifestation of the Sons of God " – the " overcomers " who will step into immortality and establish the Kingdom of God on earth.

* Pentecost Sunday, 23 May 1920 – beatified

* The Christ of Every Road – A study in Pentecost ( 1930 )

The Annual Meeting called " Pentecost " convenes annually on June 1 – 10.

* Retable of the Pentecost ( 1160 – 1170, Cluny Museum, Paris – )

He also proclaimed the eternality of the Holy Spirit, saying that the Holy Spirit's actions were somewhat hidden in the Old Testament but much clearer since the ascension of Jesus into Heaven and the descent of the Holy Spirit at the feast of Pentecost.

* Second Sunday after Pentecost :, as one of the saints commemorated on the Synaxis of the Saints of North America — this is a moveable feast of the ecclesiastical year, and the date of its observance will change from year to year.

On the next day, the feast of Pentecost, the same scene was repeated very early in the morning.

After Jesus ascends (), on the feast of Pentecost or Shavuot ( the 50th day from Firstfruits and thus usually calculated as the first day of the week ), the Spirit of God is given to the disciples, who baptize 3, 000 people into the apostolic fellowship.

Pentecost (, Pentēkostē, " the Fiftieth ") is a prominent feast in the calendar of ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the twelve Apostles of Christ.

Christians of these traditions may be surprised to learn of the significance assigned to the holiday by others, and in fact in many evangelical churches in the United States, secular Mother's Day is more celebrated than the ancient and biblical feast of Pentecost.

According to legend, King Arthur always gathered all his knights at the round table for a feast and a quest on Pentecost:

So ever the king had a custom that at the feast of Pentecost in especial, afore other feasts in the year, he would not go that day to meat until he had heard or seen of a great marvel.

The feast is one of the ecumenical feasts ( i. e., universally celebrated ), ranking with the feasts of the Passion, of Easter, and Pentecost.

* Birch is also associated with the feast of Pentecost in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia, where its branches are used as decoration for churches and homes on this day.

Matilda was crowned queen on May 11, 1068 in Westminster during the feast of Pentecost, in a ceremony presided over by the archbishop of York.

* The Sunday of the feast of Whitsun or Pentecost in the Christian liturgical year, observed 7 weeks after Easter

Eanflæd was baptised, Bede says, on the feast of Pentecost ( 8 June 626 ) with eleven others of the royal household.

The feast had an octave until 1955, when Pope Pius XII suppressed all octaves, even in local calendars, except those of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost ( see General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII ).

Doctrines of this church include the unity of one God ( Unitarianism ); the inspired infallible original texts of God's Word as the final authority of faith and practice ; receiving the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues ; the pre-millennial return of Christ ; observance of weekly seventh-day Sabbath, new moon Sabbaths, and feast days ( Pentecost, Unleavened Bread, First fruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles ).

Exceptions were made for the dying, and local interdicts were almost entirely suspended on five feasts of the year: Christmas Day, Easter Sunday, Pentecost, Corpus Christi and the feast of the Assumption of Mary.

Before 1960, it was said on all Sundays after Epiphany and Pentecost which do not fall within Octaves or on which a feast of Double rank or higher was celebrated or commemorated, as well as on Trinity Sunday.

Since it was after the first great Pentecost that the doctrine of the Trinity was proclaimed to the world, the feast becomingly follows that of Pentecost.

Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday ( also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit ) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a movable feast in the Christian calendar.

Following Sauniere's renovations and redecoratations, the church was re-dedicated on the feast of Pentecost 1897 by his bishop, Monsignor Billard.