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Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [nb 3] is a 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.
Easter lilies, a symbol of the resurrection, adorning the chancel in a Lutheran church in Baltimore Flowered cross prepared for Easter Sunday. Easter traditions (also known as Paschal traditions) are customs and practices that are followed in various cultures and communities around the world to celebrate Easter (also known as Pascha or Resurrection Sunday), which is the central feast in ...
The post The History Behind 13 Popular Easter Traditions appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... but much of our modern celebration has origins even earlier than Christianity. Indeed, Easter is ...
Celebrating Easter Monday. In some places like South Africa, there's an additional holiday that follows the Sunday celebrations known as Easter Monday. The Monday after Easter got its official ...
History of Easter. The Christian celebration of Jesus’s resurrection may be the most familiar Easter tradition, but it’s certainly not the oldest. The holiday also has roots in paganism and ...
Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is a holiday in some countries. Easter Monday in the Western Christian liturgical calendar is the second day of Eastertide and analogously in the Byzantine Rite is the second day of Bright Week. Recognized as a bank holiday in many countries, many traditional religious events, as open-air Masses ...
From a Christian perspective, Easter eggs are said to represent Jesus’ emergence from the tomb and resurrection," History.com says. "Decorating eggs for Easter is a tradition that dates back to ...
In Dutch, Easter is known as Pasen and in the North Germanic languages Easter is known as påske (Danish and Norwegian), påsk , páskar and páskir . The name is derived directly from Hebrew Pesach. [21] The letter å is pronounced /oː/, derived from an older aa, and an alternate spelling is paaske or paask.