Palm Sunday in Tudor Times

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1320) by Pietro Lorenzetti

Palm Sunday marks the start of Holy Week and commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem the week before the Resurrection. It is an event featured in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and in Tudor times the priest read  the story aloud and blessed branches of greenery used in processions. In many countries today Palm Sunday is celebrated with palm leaves or crosses made of palm leaves but the leaves were hard to come by in Tudor England so they used local greenery to make crosses.
A special shrine would be prepared for Palm Sunday, the shrine  included the blessed Sacrament representing Jesus Christ and the church’s relics. The clergy carried the special shrine around the outside of the church as the laity processed around the church in the opposite direction with both  processions meeting at the church door. The Lent veil - that hid the chancel from the nave during Lent - was drawn up and then dropped down again as they passed.