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• Maunday coin — noun The specially minted coins given out by the reigning monarch on Maunday Thursday. Face values are 1,2,3, and 4 pence …   Wiktionary

• Maunday money — noun The money and coins given out by the reigning monarch on Maunday Thursday …   Wiktionary

• Maunday Thursday — noun The Thursday before Good Friday at Easter …   Wiktionary

• MAUNDAY-THURSDAY —    the Thursday before Good Friday, on which day it was customary for high people to wash the feet of a number of poor people, and on which Royal alms are bestowed by the Royal Almoner to the poor …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• River Arrow (Worcestershire) — The River Arrow rises on Beacon Hill in the Lickey Hills Country Park in North Worcestershire and heads generally south eastwards to become a major tributary of the River Avon. The river flows through Cofton Hackett, Bittell and Alvechurch before …   Wikipedia

• Großbritannien — (Great Britain, hierzu Karte »Großbritannien«), die große, England, Wales und Schottland umfassende Insel, ein Name, der bei der Vereinigung Schottlands mit England zu Einem Reich (6. Mai 1707) wieder geltend gemacht wurde, im Gegensatz zu… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

• Gloria in Excelsis Deo — • The great doxology (hymnus angelicus) in the Mass is a version of a very old Greek form . It begins with the words sung by the angels at Christ s birth (Luke, ii, 14). To this verse others were added very early, forming a doxology Catholic… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Christian Calendar —     Christian Calendar     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Christian Calendar      GENERALITIES     All civilized peoples and even those which seem to be only just emerging from utter barbarism keep some kind of record of the flight of time and are… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• East Syrian Rite —     East Syrian Rite     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► East Syrian Rite     Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite.     History and Origin     This rite is used by the Nestorians and also by Eastern Catholic bodies in Syria,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Maundy Thursday —  Not Maunday. The day before Good Friday …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors