Easter
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Easter
(also called Easter Sunday, the day on which this festival is
celebrated) is an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the
first full moon after the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox. This
year Easter falls rather late, on April 24, which happens only twice
in two hundred years, from 1901 to 2100 (see the frequency of the
Easter instances below).
On a longer time scale Easter
appearances look more like Easter Noise [ROLLOVER].
Why would anyone establish such a complicated lunisolar Easter?
Jumping on the wagon of popularity of some older annual festivity,
non Christian, was for early Christians a praiseworthy try. Nothing
new under the Sun (and Moon, of course). |