The Sunday before Easter, marking the entry into Jerusalem when the crowd laid palm branches on the road. Palms are blessed and carried, and kept to be burnt for next year's ashes.
The Sunday before Easter, opening Holy Week. Late March or April.
The Phala almanac gives the exact day for your own city; the lunar and solar rules above are what it computes from.
Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey and the crowd laid cloaks and palm branches on the road. Five days later the same city had him executed, which is why the day is read with the passion narrative rather than on its own.
Where palms do not grow, whatever is green and to hand stands in — willow in Russia and Poland, olive in Italy, box in parts of Germany.
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