Round 7: Tossup 8

Description acceptable. Peter I abolished a commemoration of this biblical event in which the Tsar would debase himself by walking before the patriarch to Saint Basil’s Cathedral. Luke prefaces this event with the flevit super (15[1])illam passage, in which its central figure looks ahead and weeps for an entity that failed to recognize “the time of its visitation.” When asked to stop his followers during this event, that man replies “if they keep silent, the stones will cry out!” Hymns celebrating this event reprise Psalm 118’s line (*) “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” During this event, a prophesied “meek” king was surrounded by crowds (-5[1])that shouted “hosanna!” and littered the ground with cloaks and branches. For 10 points, Palm Sunday celebrates what triumphal event in which Jesus rode through a gate on a donkey? ■END■ (10[1])

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