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When Is Palm Sunday 2012?

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Icon of Christ's entrance into Jerusalem. (Photo © Slava Gallery, LLC; used with permission.)

Russian icon of Christ's entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.

(Photo © Slava Gallery, LLC; used with permission.)
Question: When Is Palm Sunday 2012?
Palm Sunday, the final Sunday before Easter Sunday, marks the beginning of Holy Week. Christian churches distribute palms (and sometimes pussy willows) on Palm Sunday to commemorate Christ's triumphal entrance into Jerusalem, when palm branches were placed in His path, before His arrest and Crucifixion on Good Friday.

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