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Since Western Christianity uses the Gregorian calendar, Easter typically falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25, according to the History Channel. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the ...
9th Sunday before Easter in Western Christianity: February 9 . Septuagesima Sunday; 2nd Sunday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 16 . Sexagesima; Last Thursday before Lent (Western Christianity): February 20. Fat Thursday; Saturday before Ash Wednesday: February 22. Festum Ovorum (University of Oxford)
Preceded by Lent, it begins on Easter Sunday, which initiates Easter Week in Western Christianity, and Bright Week in Eastern Christianity. There are several Eastertide customs across the Christian world , including flowering the cross , [ 1 ] sunrise services , the wearing of Easter bonnets by women, [ 2 ] exclaiming the Paschal greeting ...
Easter, [nb 1] also known as Pascha, or Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, [nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [nb 3] is a solemn Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.
On Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn to celebrate their belief in the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God — as the sun rises. For the majority of the world’s Christians ...
The holiday is one of several "moveable feasts" in the liturgical year, the History Channel reports. Others include Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday . This year Ash Wednesday falls on Feb. 14 and is ...
A flowered cross in a parish church (2006) Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize "the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday".
Although it is a Christian holiday now, Mardi Gras is a holiday that dates back thousands of years to pagan spring and fertility rites, according to the History Channel.