| On the day I saw the exhibit, this hand-copied book was open to the Magnificat antiphon for Vespers on Septuagesima Sunday. |
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| In other parts of Europe, the carnival begins on Septuagesima Sunday. |
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| Some have theorized, however, that Septuagesima may have been added to the liturgical calendar to commemorate the Babylonian Captivity, which lasted 70 years. |
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| In 1616, the period in which marriages were banned without dispensation from the church, including Ash Wednesday and Lent, started on 23 January, Septuagesima Sunday and ended on 7 April, the Sunday after Easter. |
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| To be found on this recording are arias and organ chorals associated with Advent, Christmas, New Year, Septuagesima, Annunciation, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity and Reformation Sunday. |
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| The time of Septuagesima has its particular focus also: the weakness of man's nature after the Fall, at which he lost not only sanctifying grace, but also the preternatural gifts. |
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| Whereas the later Esztergom books include the antiphons for the ceremony of taking leave of the Alleluia on the Saturday before Septuagesima Sunday, this breviary lacks them. |
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