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OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xxxiii. 243 Þa wæs to cumen þæs easterlican dæges symbelnes & þa on þam halgan Sæternesdæge,..þa ne mihte ic nanra þinga fæstan.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) I. ix. xxxi. 548 Also to estir perteynyþ þe euen þerof þat for passinge holynesse is iclepid Sabbatum Sanctum ‘þe holy Satirday’.

1613 W. B. tr. S. Michaelis Admirable Hist. Penitent Woman i. 397 Vpon holy Saturday Magdalene, in token of her humility and obedience, tooke the besome to sweepe the chamber, whereat the Diuell grumbled and cryed very fiercely.

1699 J. Stevens tr. J. de Mariana Gen. Hist. Spain xxx. iii. 547 Upon Holy Saturday he encamped and entrenched himself at a Place called Molinazzo, two miles from the Enemy.

1730 tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. IV. Index Saturday, holy, even Children fasted on that Day.

1781 J. T. Dillon Lett. Eng. Trav. Spain ix. 130 Lent..promises to meet him at Jerusalem, dresses himself like a pilgrim and makes his escape on Holy-Saturday.

1844 Times 18 Apr. 5/3 The mass..is always sung in the Pope's chapel on Holy Saturday.

1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 405/2 The Mass celebrated at midnight belonged rather to the morning of Easter Sunday than to Holy Saturday.

1936 Folk-lore 47 394 On Holy Saturday the ‘ministrants’ go to the houses to collect money for the rattle-boys.

1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 50/2 No Catholic I know still observes the Good Friday—Holy Saturday solemn vigil.