Pentecost then discusses the location of this campaign, and mentions the " hill of Megiddo " and other geographic locations such as " the valley of Jehoshaphat " and " the valley of the passengers ", " Lord coming from Edom or Idumea, south of Jerusalem, when He returns from the judgment "; and Jerusalem itself.

With peace concluded, Otto II returned to Aachen to celebrate Pentecost, and then moved towards Nijmegen.

He then held an Reichstag at Verona on Pentecost, 983.

In Northern Europe Pentecost was preferred even over Easter for this rite, as the temperatures in late spring might be supposed to be more conducive to outdoor immersion as was then the practice.

' Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio, Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, Some five-and-twenty years, and then we mask'd.

Sir Galahad is then brought to King Arthur's court at Camelot during Pentecost, where he is accompanied by a very old knight who immediately leads him over to the Round Table and unveils his seat at the Siege Perilous, an unused chair that has been kept vacant for the sole person who will accomplish the quest of the Holy Grail.

It then resumes after Pentecost until the Sunday before Advent which is kept as the Feast of Christ the King.

The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and " divided tongues like fire " coming to rest on the apostles.

The biblical narrative of Pentecost, where the 12 Disciples of Christ ( Acts 1: 13, 26 ) along with about 108 other individuals ( Acts 1: 15 ), including many women, among whom was Mary the mother of Jesus ( Acts 1: 14 ) received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room, is given in the second chapter of the Book of Acts.

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 their biblical interpretation, the Gospel of John 20: 22 shows that the disciples of Jesus were already born again before the Holy Spirit fell at Pentecost.

The very first Christians ( the Twelve Apostles and the 120 Disciples at Pentecost, etc ) were all Jews or biblical proselytes, either by birth or conversion, referred to by historians as the Jewish Christians.

The six-foot-tall piers have medium-relief sculptural biblical scenes of the Post-Passion which are the Three Marys Discovering Jesus Christ is Gone, the Pentecost, the Doubting Thomas, and the Road to Emmaus.

It was after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost where they were gathered in one place that John spent much of his time in Judea and in the surrounding lands preaching the gospel.

The Triodion is used until the lights are extinguished before midnight at the Paschal Vigil, at which time it is replaced by the Pentecostarion, which begins by replacing the normal services entirely ( during Bright Week ) and gradually diminishes until the normal services resume following the Afterfeast of Pentecost.

It is celebrated at the time of ninth hour ( 3: 00pm ) on the Sunday of Pentecost by a special three-segment prayer known as the " Office of Genuflection ( Kneeling Prayer )".

For some Protestants, the nine days between Ascension Day, and Pentecost are set aside as a time of fasting, and world-wide prayer in honor of the disciples ' time of prayer and unity awaiting the Holy Spirit.

Since that time however Pentecost Monday is no longer solemnized.

" Pfingsten, das liebliche Fest ", speaks of Pentecost as a time of greening and blooming in fields, woods, hills, mountains, bushes and hedges, of birds singing new songs, meadows sprouting fragrant flowers, and of festive sunshine gleaming from the skies and coloring the earth-iconic lines idealizing the Pentecost holidays in the German speaking lands.

William Shakespeare mentions Pentecost in a line from Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene V. At the ball at his home, Capulet speaks in refuting an overestimate of the time elapsed since he last danced: " What, man?

Before 1955, the option existed of blessing the baptismal font on the Vigil of Pentecost, and this was the only time the Paschal candle would be lit at services after Ascension.

They rang for the first time for the Pentecost celebration in 2003.

In 2008 Pinkpop was for the first time in its history, not held on Pentecost weekend which fell too early that year for the convenience of fans and performers alike.

* Pentecost – the feast of 50 days after Passover ; the church celebrates this day " in much the same manner in which the early church observed it in Acts 2 ..." This is also the time of their General Assembly, in which members from their churches travel to Cleveland, Tennessee for a week-long gathering and special service schedule.

In 1937, the Federal Council of Churches ( now known as the National Council of Churches ) recommended that the entire part of the Christian calendar between Pentecost and Advent be named Kingdomtide ; however, two years later the Methodist Episcopal Church adopted the term only for the second half of this time period.

In the Roman Rite, the word " Alleluia " is associated with joy and is especially favoured in Paschal time, the time between Easter and Pentecost, perhaps because of the association of the Hallel ( Alleluia psalms ) chanted at Passover.

During this time, the word is added widely to verses and responses associated with prayers, to antiphons of psalms, and, during the Octave of Easter and on Pentecost Sunday, to the dismissal at the end of Mass (" Ite missa est ").

Lawton's accusations were disputed by a partner in his legal firm, Hugh O. Pentecost, and there is no proof that Feigenbaum was in Whitechapel at the time of the murders.

Some believe that the much-disputed forty-third decree of the Council of Elvira ( c. 300 ) condemning the practice of observing a feast on the fortieth day after Easter and neglecting to keep Pentecost on the fiftieth day, implies that the proper usage of the time was to commemorate the Ascension along with Pentecost.

Cessationists generally believe that the miraculous gifts were given only for the foundation of the Church, during the time between the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, c. AD 33 ( see Acts 2 ) and the fulfillment of God's purposes in history, usually identified as either the completion of the last book of the New Testament or the death of the last Apostle, i. e. John the Apostle.

In the Southern Hemisphere, where January is a vacation time, churches often find other days to celebrate the week of prayer, for example around Pentecost ( as originally suggested by the Faith and Order movement in 1926, and Pope Leo XIII in 1894 ), which is also a symbolic date for the unity of the church.

Already by the fourth century it was accepted as normal time of administering them, though it was allowed, e. g. by Pope Siricius ( 384-399 ), also on Pentecost.

Pentecost, who weighed 310 pounds at the time of filming, contributed stories from his own life to the series, including a scene in which his character weighs himself on a postal scale because he is too heavy for a conventional bathroom scale.

Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday.

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.

These are: the week following Pascha, the week following Pentecost, the period from the Nativity of Christ until January the 5th and the first week of the Triodion ( the week following the 33rd Sunday after the Pentecost ).

* The period of the Pentecostarion ( Sunday of Pascha through the Sunday After Pentecost which is also called the Sunday of all saints )

It takes place during the twelve days before and after Pentecost ; this period is called the " fifth season " by the locals.

Green vestments and paraments were used at church services during Kingdomtide, replacing the red used on the Sundays after Pentecost ( in churches that did not recognize Kingdomtide as a separate season, green was generally deployed throughout the entire period between Pentecost and Advent ).

* During the 50-day Easter period, vestments are generally white or gold, but red when celebrating apostles and martyrs and on the solemnity of Pentecost.

Eastertide, or the Easter Season, or Paschal Time, is the period of fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday.

up to the Seventh Sunday of Easter, while the whole fifty-day period concludes with Pentecost Sunday.

Fasting, which had always been part of the penitential discipline, became more regularized, and three major times of fasting were observed, Advent, Lent ( prior to Easter ), and a period after Pentecost.