The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.

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

* Flor de Pascua ( The Easter Flower ), woodcut / book illustrations ( 1921 )

* Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras – 47 days before 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.

Before his elevation to the Roman episcopacy, a difference in dating the celebration of the Christian Passover / Easter between Rome and the bishops of Asia Minor had been tolerated by both the Roman and Eastern churches.

There are also many other formulas running on the oval tracks throughout a season that starts around March / Easter and continues to October / November.

In the refrain of " Easter, 1916 " (" All changed, changed utterly / A terrible beauty is born "), Yeats faces his own failure to recognise the merits of the leaders of the Easter Rising, due to his attitude towards their humble backgrounds and lives.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Pentecost is one of the Orthodox Great Feasts and is considered to be the highest ranking Great Feast of the Lord, second in rank only to Easter / Resurrection Sunday / Passover.

Roggeveen discovered Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1722.

** Carnaval called " Vastelaovend " in February / March ( 6 weeks before Easter ).

* Easter Egg Hunt ( March / April )

A CVS / pharmacy in New York City that is open 24 / 7, but remains closed on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day

The closest land mass is the mainland of Ecuador800 km / 500 mi to the east ( the country to which they belong ), to the north is Cocos Island at and to the south is Easter Island and San Felix Island at.

In certain special occasions in the Episcopal Church including, but not limited to, the traditional Easter Vigil service, homily may be defined as a summoning of young and / or infantile children, as an immediate precursor to a linguistically casual and semi-interactive monologue presented by a bishop or equally highly ranking member of aforementioned clergymen.

* The 1976 Rankin / Bass television special, The First Easter Rabbit adapts the plot of the book as first of part of its story of how a toy bunny is recruited as the Easter Bunny.

* Rally racing-the team of Timo Mäkinen / Paul Easter won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Mini Cooper S

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar.

In many languages, the words for " Easter " and " Passover " are etymologically related or homonymous.

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.

Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection.

At the First Council of Nicaea in 325 it was decided that all Christian churches would celebrate Easter on the same day, which would be computed independently of any Jewish calculations to determine the date of Passover.

In determining the date of the Jewish Passover a lunisolar calendar is also used, and because Easter always falls on a Sunday it usually falls up to a week after the first day of Passover ( Nisan 15 in the Hebrew calendar ).

However, the differences in the rules between the Hebrew and Gregorian cycles results in Passover falling about a month after Easter in three years of the 19-year cycle.

In years 2200 – 2299, for example, the start of Passover will be about a month later than Gregorian Easter in four years out of nineteen.

Furthermore, because the Julian calendar's lunar age is now about four to five days behind the mean lunations, Julian Easter always follows the start of Passover.

This cumulative effect of the errors in the Julian calendar's solar year and lunar age has led to the often-repeated, but false, belief that the Julian cycle includes an explicit rule requiring Easter always to follow Jewish Passover.

" In AD 195, Victor I, in what is seen as an exercise of Roman authority over other churches, excommunicated the Quartodecimans for observing Easter on the 14th of Nisan, the date of the Jewish Passover, a tradition handed down by John the Evangelist ( see Easter controversy ).

Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection.

For the vernal ( spring ) equinox, several spring-time festivals are celebrated, such as the Persian Nowruz, the observance in Judaism of Passover and in most Christian churches of Easter.

He proposed that the plot focus on the conflict between an Irish American Roman Catholic family and a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during the Easter – Passover season.

Having this on the table is a part of Christian Easter and Jewish Passover tradition in Eastern and Central Europe.

A fragment of a letter from Irenæus to Pope Victor I during the Easter controversy in the late 2nd century, also preserved by Eusebius, testifies that Telesphorus was one of the Roman bishops who always celebrated Easter on Sunday, rather than on other days of the week according to the calculation of the Jewish Passover.

However, whereas Western Christians follow the Gregorian Calendar in their calculations, the Orthodox calculate the fixed date of 21 March according to the Julian Calendar, and observe the additional rule that Easter may not precede or coincide with the first day of the Jewish Passover ( see computus for further details ).

The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover.

They feel that to conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, the Catholic Church took measures to amalgamate the Christian and Pagan festivals so pagans would join the church ; for example, bringing in the pagan festival of Easter as a substitute for the Pasch or Passover, although neither Jesus nor his Apostles enjoined the keeping of this or any other festival.

They'd return to the Bowery every Easter Weekend and play through Labor Day weekend.

The video, which had been made during the Easter Weekend of 2008 at Raffles L ’ Ermitage hotel, was leaked to the public by Shrider to TMZ.

Over the Easter Weekend in April 2009, the popular Pirate Radio Essex programme was resurrected by popular demand from listeners, occurring 5 days after the release of the comedy movie The Boat that Rocked.

The Easter Powerboat Classic is held on the Manning River near Queen Elizabeth Park during the Easter Long Weekend.

Spring Sing is an annual musical production held during Easter Weekend, featuring performances by the social clubs.

Following nationalisation the railway has been operated seasonally by various government departments and continues to run in summer season, for many years opening for the Easter Weekend until the end of September, though more recently it has been open between February and November,

* Rush Hour ( Enthusiasts ' Event Easter Weekend )

* April 20 – 28 – Former NSWGR's 38 class locomotives 3801 and 3830 head to Melbourne, Victoria called the Millennium Aurora by the NSW Rail Transport Museum during the Easter Long Weekend.

Other Silver Fern tours have included a Queen's Birthday day tour to Napier, tours to the Tui brewery via the Manawatu Gorge, an Easter Weekend trip to Gisborne, Valentine's Weekend and ANZAC Weekend tours to the central North Island.

Before 2001, Balticon was held on Easter weekend to take advantage of lower hotel costs and was three days long ; however, in 2001 Balticon moved to Memorial Day Weekend and expanded to four days.

Shot in London, the film was released in April ( Easter Weekend ) 2007.

*# Panchgani Every year on Easter Weekend.

The Easter Weekend saw a 3 – 1 victory at Ramsgate, followed by a 2 – 1 win over Carshalton Athletic.