Passion Week

the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.

the week before Holy Week, beginning with Passion Sunday.

Origin of Passion Week

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

It is Passion-week, too; and that's not a week to play the heathen.

A Terrible Temptation |Charles Reade
And thus Passion-week tells all men in what true goodness lies.

Westminster Sermons |Charles Kingsley
Shrove-Tuesday was marked by a ball, and Passion-week by promenades and concerts.

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete |Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
He who has learnt the lesson of Passion-week, and practises it; he and he only is a good man.

Westminster Sermons |Charles Kingsley

In Passion-week pilgrims come to pray at the several "stations" along the route to the figurative Calvary at the end of the Via.

Spanish Vistas |George Parsons Lathrop

Passion Week

the week between Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday

(formerly) Holy Week; the week before Easter