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Pentecost is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year.
It is also one of the English-language names for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
Pentecost may also refer to:
Other religious and cultural events
- Pinksteren (Dutch word meaning "Pentecost"), often pronounced in English as "Pinkster"
Places
People
- Pentecost Dodderidge (died c. 1650), MP for Barnstaple, England
- Denie Pentecost (born 1970), Australian footballer
- George Frederick Pentecost (1842–1920), American evangelist
- Hugh O. Pentecost (1848–1907), American minister, editor, lawyer, and lecturer
- J. Dwight Pentecost (1915–2014), American theologian
- Max Pentecost (born 1993), American baseball player
- Del Pentecost (born 1963), American actor and cast member of the 2008 play Almost an Evening
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term