2 Maccabees 15:35-37

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁵ And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.

³⁶ And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this day pass without solemnity:

³⁷ But to celebrate the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, called, in the Syrian language, the day before Mardochias' day.