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The Paschal Triduum or Easter Triduum (Latin: Triduum Paschale), [1] Holy Triduum (Latin: Triduum Sacrum), or the Three Days, [2] is the period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday, [3] reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday. [4]
Holy Saturday (Latin: Sabbatum Sanctum), also known as Great and Holy Saturday (also Holy and Great Saturday), Low Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Hallelujah Saturday (in Portugal and Brazil), Saturday of the Glory, Sábado de Gloria, and Black Saturday or Easter Eve, [1] and called "Joyous Saturday", "the Saturday of Light", and "Mega Sabbatun" among Coptic Christians, is the final day of Holy ...
Easter Parade is a 1948 American Technicolor musical film directed by Charles Walters, written by Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich, and Albert Hackett from a story by Goodrich and Hackett, and starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, and Ann Miller. The film contains some of Astaire's and Garland's best-known songs, including "Easter ...
Easter time is the period of 50 days, spanning from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. [13] It is celebrated as a single joyful feast, called the "great Lord's Day". [14] Each Sunday of the season is treated as a Sunday of Easter. In some traditions, Easter Sunday is the first Sunday of Eastertide and the following Sunday (Low Sunday) is the ...
White - Signified purity, birth, light, rejoicing, virginity. Green - the color of new life in the spring. Green represents the resurrection of nature, and the riches of vegetation. Brown - represents the earth. Some color combinations had specific meanings, too: Black and white - mourning, respect for the souls of the dead.
Capirote. A capirote[1] is a Catholic pointed hat of conical form that is used in Spain and Hispanic countries by members of a confraternity of penitents. It is part of the uniform of such brotherhoods including the Nazarenos and Fariseos during Easter observances and reenactments in some areas during Holy Week in Spain and its former colonies ...
April 27 (Eastern) 2026 date. April 12 (Western) April 19 (Eastern) The Second Sunday of Easter is the eighth day of the Christian season of Eastertide, and the seventh after Easter Sunday. [1] It is known by various names, including Divine Mercy Sunday, [2][3] the Octave Day of Easter, White Sunday[a] (Latin: Dominica in albis), Quasimodo ...
The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit —sometimes dressed with clothes—bringing Easter eggs. Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behavior ...