As he rides away, Easter, Queen, Jack, Lizzie, Sally and Jane, stand watch.

While James is gone, Queen serves the ladies of the house, Lizzie and the now elderly Sally Jackson, as does Queen's mother, Easter.

* There then follows the Frühjahrsmarkt ( Spring market ) two weeks before Easter, when all the shops in the town are permitted to open on Sunday ( which is normally prohibited in Bavaria ).

Jesus ' death and resurrection are commemorated by Christians in all worship services, with special emphasis during Holy Week which includes Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

There are only 14 different calendars when Easter Sunday is not involved.

However, when Easter Sunday is included, there are 70 different calendars ( two for each date of Easter ).

Easter Island and Juan Fernández Archipelago, including Robinson Crusoe Island, are also major attractions.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

Easter eggs are special eggs that are often given to celebrate Easter or springtime.

Easter eggs are common during Eastertide as they symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus.

In Hungary, eggs are used sliced in potato casseroles around the Easter period.

In the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, shed on the Cross, and the hard shell of the egg symbolized the sealed Tomb of Christ — the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead.

Easter eggs are blessed by the priest at the end of the Paschal Vigil ( which is equivalent to Holy Saturday ), and distributed to the faithful.

Each household also brings an Easter basket to church, filled not only with Easter eggs but also with other Paschal foods such as paskha, kulich or Easter breads, and these are blessed by the priest as well.

Easter eggs are a widely popular symbol of new life in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and other Central European countries ' folk traditions.

An Easter egg hunt is a common festive activity, where eggs are hidden outdoors ( or indoors if in bad weather ) for children to run around and find.

Egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them without damaging any eggs which originated in Germany.

The eggs are hidden in a similar tradition to the American Easter egg hunt and when found the children ( and adults ) break them over each other's heads.

Beeping Easter eggs are Easter eggs that emit various clicks and noises so that the visually impaired children can easily hunt for Easter eggs.

After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.

Gauss would later solve this puzzle about his birthdate in the context of finding the date of Easter, deriving methods to compute the date in both past and future years.

Easter eggs have inspired the form of many similar objects both precious and mundane, including chocolate eggs, monuments, and the famous Fabergé eggs.

Additional customs include egg hunting, the Easter Bunny, and Easter parades, which are observed by both Christians and some non-Christians.

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.

But both those who followed the Nisan 14 custom, and those who set Easter to the following Sunday ( the Sunday of Unleavened Bread ) had in common the custom of consulting their Jewish neighbors to learn when the month of Nisan would fall, and setting their festival accordingly.

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars ( both of which follow the cycle of the sun and the seasons ).

From this time, therefore, all disputes between Alexandria and Rome as to the correct date for Easter cease, as both churches were using identical tables.

The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

The civil versions of the Julian and Gregorian Calendars are solar, because their dates do not indicate the moon phase — however, both the Gregorian and Julian calendars include undated lunar calendars that allow them to calculate the Christian celebration of Easter, so both are lunisolar calendars in that respect.

The information used to create the late-4th-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

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.

The name Quinquagesima originates from Latin quinquagesimus ( fiftieth ), referring to the fifty days before Easter Day using inclusive counting which counts both Sundays ( normal counting would count only one of these ).

Some of the native abbots were also deposed, both at the council held near Easter and at a further one near Whitsun.

After the Cockermouth school, he was sent to a school in Penrith for the children of upper-class families and taught by Ann Birkett, a woman who insisted on instilling in her students traditions that included pursuing both scholarly and local activities, especially the festivals around Easter, May Day, and Shrove Tuesday.

There are some differences in the timing of Lent ( besides calculating the date of Easter ) and how it is practiced, both liturgically in the public worship of the church and individually.

In both East and West, the dates of many feasts vary from year to year, usually in line with the variation in the date of Easter, with which most other moveable feasts are associated.

In the post-1969 form of the Roman Rite, " Passion Sunday " and " Palm Sunday " are both names for the Sunday before Easter, officially called " Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion ".

Easter for both East and West is calculated as the first Sunday after the full moon that falls on or after March 21 ( nominally the day of the vernal equinox ).

The mountain has been used both for the Easter Fires pageant and for Easter sunrise services.

" Despite this, sung Passion performances were common in Lutheran churches right from the start, in both Latin and German, beginning as early as Laetare Sunday ( three weeks before Easter ) and continuing through Holy Week.