In religion it is believed that after the Ascension of the Lord, the Virgin Mary landed on the island and came upon a pagan temple.
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In Roman Catholicism, the Ascension of the Lord is a Holy Day of Obligation and in the Anglican Communion, Holy Thursday is a Principal Feast.
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The solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord is celebrated on the fortieth day of Eastertide ( a Thursday ), except in countries where it is not a Holy Day of Obligation.
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An Orthodox Church ( Ascension of the Lord ) in Byzantine style was built at the cemetery in 1884 1889 . It was built on the proceeds from the sale of burial places.
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The second part rises above the main doors with three columned areas containing balconies, stained-glass windows and balustrades, terminating in a rectilinear pendiment with an image of the Ascension of the Lord.
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The first mention of the detailed description of Rukumija left Maksim Ratkovic 1733 According to him, the church was dedicated to St . Ascension of the Lord, built of stone and was vaulted stone ceiling.
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In a solemn ceremony, the wooden coffins of Nicholas II, his family and their servants were placed in the Ascension of the Lord Church in Yekaterinburg before being flown to St . Petersburg, where they will be buried Friday.
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In a solemn ceremony, the wooden coffins of Nicholas II, his family and their servants were placed in the Ascension of the Lord Church in Yekaterinburg before being flown to St . Petersburg, where they will be buried Friday in the old imperial capital.
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Easter, etc . The Sunday preceding the feast of the Ascension of the Lord was sometimes, though not officially, called Rogation Sunday, and when the Ascension had an octave, the following Sunday was called Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension, but when this octave was abolished in 1955, it was called Sunday after the Ascension.
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After Thomas Sunday ( the Sunday after Pascha ), it is either sung or read thrice at the beginning of most services and private prayers in place of the usual invocation of the Holy Spirit, " O Heavenly King ", and at the dismissals, during the 39-day paschal afterfeast; that is, up to and including the day before the Ascension of the Lord.
