Adventusin Jerusalem: the Palm Sunday celebration in Latin Jerusalem

Abstract

Themes of continuity and innovation in the rituals of the church of Jerusalem in the early twelfth century, following the crusader conquest of the city, are examined with a focus on the Latin Palm Sunday procession. Based on the Ordinal of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which was produced for the use of the patriarch and the religious community of the Holy Sepulchre, and which contains the yearly ritual cycles and major processional celebrations, the study reveals the original characteristics of the Jerusalem liturgy, as well as its components incorporated from pre-crusade practice. It speculates on the earliest organisers of the liturgy, their identity and the sources of their inspiration, as well as the orientations of the early monastic community in Frankish Jerusalem.

Ethnobotany of the ritual plants of the Adriatic islands (Croatia) associated with the Roman-Catholic ceremonial year

“…In Slovenia, some rituals are similar to those of Poland rather than coastal Croatia, as bunches of cereals and medicinal herbs, including Tanacetum vulgare, are blessed on Assumption Day (Mlakar, 2020). e blessing of palm leaves and olive branches is widespread in the Mediterranean and was already recorded in medieval pre-Crusade Jerusalem (Shagrir, 2015). e symbolism of the date palm (Phoenix) as a tree of life, existing since antiquity, should not be neglected as the reason for its use in rituals (Nixon, 1951).…”