It was only natural that on the actual anniversary the feast should be kept with peculiar solemnity, for it was the foremost Christian feast, and the center of the liturgical year. Easter drew in its train Pentecost, which was fixed as the fiftieth day after the Resurrection; it was the ...
The exact origin of the Apostles Creed is unclear. There is a tradition that the creed comes from the apostles themselves and that each of the Twelve wrote one of the twelve articles on the day of Pentecost after the descent of the Holy Spirit (of course, by this point, St. Matthias ha...