A cattle fair is held annually on Greek Palm Sunday.
It was natural that olive and willow should have been chosen for the Palm Sunday ceremony, for they are the earliest trees to bud in the spring; their consecration, however, may be explained by the intention to Christianize a pagan belief, and it is easy to see how their mystic virtues came in this way to be ascribed to the palm also.
Of the reformed churches, the Church of England alone includes Palm Sunday in the Holy Week celebrations.
Of the Lutheran churches only that of Brandenburg seems to have kept the Palm Sunday procession for a while.
He reached Rome on Palm Sunday (March 30), only to find his patron ill of a deadly sickness, from which he died on Good Friday (April 4).
