Ascension of Christ
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- /əˈsɛnʃən əv kraɪst/
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Ascensión de Cristo
- For although the Christian Church, which is the holy city, continued in the faith from the Ascension of Christ, even till this time: yet it has not observed and kept the perfection of the faith all this whole season.
Examples
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Many Christians celebrate the ascension of Christ as a pivotal moment in their faith.
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On the one hand, believers can do this because in the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ Jesus, something has changed once and for all.
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Christ's ascension after his resurrection is a key event in Christian theology.
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The ascension of Christ is commemorated forty days after Easter Sunday.
Synonyms
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Jesus rises into heaven in his body forty days after Easter
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An event when Jesus leaves Earth and goes up to heaven forty days after he comes back to life
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A Christian holiday when people remember Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
A Christian holiday marking Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase directly combines 'ascension' (the act of rising) with 'Christ' (Jesus), so its meaning — Jesus' rising/going up to heaven — is compositionally transparent. This structure is not idiomatic and is mirrored in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Ascension of Christ comes from the Christian story that Jesus rose up into the sky forty days after his 'resurrection'. People watched him go up into 'heaven', so the word ascension means 'going up' to 'heaven' in this religious sense.