Carmela Soprano's Cassata / Iced Sponge Cake with Ricotta Filling l Palm Sunday Customs

It's Palm Sunday!

And almost everybody has fresh palm leaves to prove it!



In Malta, on Ħadd il-Palm, both palm leaves and olive leaves are used.

Many parishes there have a shrine of 'Jesus prays in the Olive Garden' (Ġesù fl-Ort).

In memory of that, people take a small branch of olive to their homes.



In Italy palm leaves and small olive branches are also used.

These are placed above