Palm Sunday Procession (East Timor) - Catholic Stock Photo
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Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. Palm Sunday marks the first day of Holy Week. For adherents of mainstream Christianity, it is the last week of the Christian solemn season of Lent that precedes the arrival of Eastertide.
East Timor is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island surrounded by Indonesian West Timor. Australia is the country's southern neighbor, separated by the Timor Sea. The country's size is 15,007 square kilometers (5,794 sq mi). Dili is its capital. It is one of only two predominantly Catholic nations in Southeast Asia, the other being the Philippines, as well as the only country in Asia to be located completely in the Southern Hemisphere.
