Easter Eggs - Their Origin
As so often with religious traditions, Easter eggs, and the Lenten abstaining from them, originates in very sensible (in this case rural) practicalities. Easter in the Northern Hemisphere in which it originates is a Spring early harvest festival (effectively the Jewish Passover). The formula for Easter Sunday was set at the Council of Nicaea in 325. Passover falls on full moon (14 Nissan of the Jewish calendar) and so, in the early church, many Christians celebrated Christ"s resurrection on that day - which could be any day of the week. At Nicaea there was agreement Easter Day needed to be always a Sunday. ...
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