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Palm Sunday is Easter Palms preparation. Palm Sunday date depends on Easter date and it is Sunday just before Easter Sunday, which can be between the 15th of March and the 18th of April. It commemorates Christ triumphant entry to Jerusalem when people cheered Jesus coming by laying palm leaves at his feet. There are no palm trees in Poland therefore, Polish people make their own palms and take them to church for blessing. In most areas such palms are quite simple bouquets consisting either of catkins branches, boxwood branches or dried flowers. Still, in more traditional regions eg. mountainous south of Poland or famous for its palms Lipnica Murowana village palms are really something to behold. Complicated and richly decorated structures that can even have a few meters are ceremoniously blessed in front of churchgoers. After blessing the palms are obligatory decorations on Easter tables.

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