Seven Dolours of the Virgin, the prediction of Simeon (Luke ii. 35); the flight into Egypt; the loss of the child in Jerusalem; the sight of her Son bearing the cross; the sight of Him upon the cross; the descent from the cross; and the entombment—the festival in connection with which is celebrated on the Friday before Palm Sunday.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Seven Deadly Sins * Seven Sages of Greece