The Easter Rising () was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916.

On the afternoon of Easter Day, a joyful service called " Agape Vespers " is celebrated During this service the Great Prokeimenon is chanted and a lesson from the Gospel () is read in as many different languages as possible, accompanied by the joyful ringing of bells.

Mämmi () is a traditional Finnish Easter dessert.

Just north of this junction the A9 bridges the Cromarty Firth () to reach Easter Ross.

Thomas MacDonagh () ( 1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916 ) was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Magiritsa () is a Greek soup made from lamb offal, associated with the Easter ( Pascha ) tradition of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Hill of Fearn () is a small village near Tain in Easter Ross, in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Harissa () is traditionally served on Easter day

The stadium () was opened on Easter Saturday, 30 March 1929 for the new craze of Speedway.

Invergordon () is a town and port in Easter Ross, in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland.

Balintore () is a village near Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland.

Hilton of Cadboll, or simply Hilton, () is a village about southeast of Tain in Easter Ross, is in the Scottish council area of Highland It is famous for the Hilton of Cadboll Stone.

The Seaboard Villages () are three contiguous coastal villages, situated about 10 km southeast of the town of Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland.

Orthodox Church | Orthodox priest blessing Easter baskets at Easter | Pascha ( Easter ) in Lviv, Ukraine

Then, with the coming of Easter, Pascha the eating of eggs resumes.

A stained glass window depicting the Lamb of God | Passover Lamb, a concept integral to the foundation of Easter ( Pascha ).

The second century equivalent of Easter and the Paschal Triduum was called by both Greek and Latin writers " Pascha ( πάσχα )", a Greek transliteration of the Aramaic form of the Hebrew פ ֶּ ס ַ ח, the Passover feast of Exodus 12.

In all Romance languages, the name of the Easter festival is derived from the Latin Pascha.

By the later 2nd century, it was accepted that the celebration of Pascha ( Easter ) was a practice of the disciples and an undisputed tradition.

The Quartodeciman controversy, the first of several Paschal / Easter controversies, then arose concerning the date on which Pascha should be celebrated.

The term " Quartodeciman " refers to the practice of celebrating Pascha or Easter on Nisan 14 of the Hebrew calendar, " the's passover " ().

The Sunday before Easter is Palm Sunday, with the Wednesday before Pascha being known as Spy Wednesday.

However, most branches of the Orthodox Church still use the Julian calendar for calculating the dates of moveable feasts, including Easter ( Pascha ).

This book is one of the most widely-read among Orthodox Christians, especially during the season of Great Lent which immediately precedes Pascha ( Easter ).

St. Mary of Bethany is commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches with her sister Martha on June 4, as well as on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers ( the Third Sunday of Pascha, i. e. the Third Sunday of Easter ).

The Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar begins on 1 September – proceeding annually from the Nativity of the Theotokos to the celebration of Jesus ' birth in the winter ( Christmas ), through his death and resurrection in the spring ( Pascha / Easter ), to his Ascension and the Assumption of his mother ( Dormition of the Theotokos / Virgin Mary ) in the summer.

# The Eastern and Western Christian churches calculate Pascha using two different calendars ( Julian and Gregorian, respectively ); hence in most years Easter is celebrated on a different date in the East and the West.

It would have relied mainly on the co-operation of the Eastern Orthodox Church, since the date of Pascha ( Easter ) would change for them immediately ; whereas for the Western churches, the new system would not differ from that currently in use until 2019.

* Notes on calculating Orthodox Pascha (" Easter ")

This council is celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite as " The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy " each year on the first Sunday of Great Lent — the fast that leads up to Pascha ( Easter )— and again on the Sunday closest to October 11 ( the Sunday on or after October 8 ).

Great Lent, or the Great Fast, is the most important fasting season in the church year in Eastern Christianity, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Pascha ( Easter ).

Most years, the Eastern Pascha falls after the Western Easter, and it may be as much as five weeks later ; occasionally, the two dates coincide.

However, fasting continues throughout the following week, known as Passion Week or Holy Week, and does not end until after the Paschal Vigil early in the morning of Pascha ( Easter Sunday ).

This is a Vespers service to which are added three sets of long poetical prayers, the composition of Saint Basil the Great, during which everyone makes a full prostration, touching their foreheads to the floor ( prostrations in church having been forbidden from the day of Pascha ( Easter ) up to this point ).

Eastern Orthodox churches commemorate him on the Third Sunday of Pascha ( i. e., the second Sunday after Easter ) and on July 31, the date shared by Lutheran churches.

A pysanka (, plural: pysanky ) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated using a wax-resist ( batik ) method.

In Egypt, the ancient festival of Sham El Nessim (, literally meaning " smelling of the breeze ") is celebrated on the Coptic ( i. e. Eastern ) Easter Monday, though the festival dates back to Pharonic times ( about 2700 BC ).

The Carnival of Brazil (, ) is a great festival held forty-six days before Easter.

* Paskha ( meal ), an Easter dish served in several Slavic countries

* Paskha, a Russian Easter dessert made of curd

* Easter Molded Cheese Dessert Recipe-Paska / Paskha

Usually called the Feast of Theophany ( Greek:, " God shining forth " or " divine manifestation "), it is one of the Great Feasts of the liturgical year, being third in rank, behind only Paskha ( Easter ) and Pentecost in importance.