"In the primitive Church Holy Saturday was known as Great, or Grand Saturday, Holy Saturday, the Angelic … It is no longer, like Maundy Thursday, a day of joy, but one of joy and sadness intermingled; it is the close of the season of Lent and penance, and the beginning of paschal time."
— Lent

January 1, 1970

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Holidays and observances
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Charles George Herbermann, et al, in The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church,.. Volume 7 (1912)