How To Use Quadragesima In A Sentence
- This fast period lasted 40 days, and was, therefore, called "Quadragesima Sancti Martini," which means in Latin "the forty days of St. Martin. Archive 2008-11-01
- Just as Easter was followed by fifty days of rejoicing, so it had its period of preparation by prayer and fasting, from which arose the season of Lent, which, after various changes, commenced finally forty days before Easter, whence its name of Quadragesima. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- Quadragesima (the forty days) was originally a period marked by fasting, but not necessarily a period in which the faithful fasted every day. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima, which denote the Sundays which immediately precede, and the word Quadragesima, which denotes the first The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
- ; Italian as quaresima; and Spanishas cuaresma, these all deriving from the Latin quadragesima, meaning 'fortieth'. CathNews
- We shall begin with the fire-festivals of spring, which usually fall on the first Sunday of Lent (Quadragesima or Invocavit), Easter Eve, and May Day. Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 1. The Fire-festivals in general
- Perhaps the word is only one of a numerical series: Quadragesima, Quinquagesima, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- Thus people fast in Quadragesima Lent as a prayerful preparation for Holy Week, or, at least, that's what they should be doing; many, of course, just do it because that's what they've heard people do during Lent. And it happened in the days of Achashverosh...
- Quadragesima denotes a season of preparation by fasting and prayer, to imitate the example of Christ (Matt., iv). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss