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Easter Saturday, on the Christian calendar, is the seventh day of Eastertide, being the Saturday of Easter or Bright Week. In the kalendar of Western Christianity it is the last day of Easter Week, sometimes referred to as the Saturday of Easter Week or Saturday in Easter Week. It is the seventh day in the Octave of Easter too. [1]
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 ...
The week beginning with Easter Sunday is called Easter Week or the Octave of Easter, and each day is prefaced with "Easter", e.g. Easter Monday (a public holiday in many countries), Easter Tuesday (a much less widespread public holiday), etc. Easter Saturday is therefore the Saturday after Easter Sunday. The day before Easter is properly called ...
Here's what happens on this important day during Holy Week.
Families wait for the egg hunt during Easter on the Prairie at Mollie Spencer Farm in Yukon, Okla., on Saturday, April 8, 2023. Easter, also called Pascha or Resurrection Sunday, is the holiest ...
How is Easter determined each year? Lent 2024 ends soon and Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday. What to know about Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, etc.
Blessing of the Easter fire in Batangas, Philippines. The Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal Vigil, the Great Vigil of Easter, or Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil on the Holy Night of Easter is a liturgy held in traditional Christian churches as the first official celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus.
Families wait for the egg hunt during Easter on the Prairie at Mollie Spencer Farm in Yukon, Okla., on Saturday, April 8, 2023. Easter, also called Pascha or Resurrection Sunday, is the holiest ...