The Easter Lily ( badge ) | Easter Lily is a badge worn at Easter by Irish republicans as symbol of remembrance for Irish combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising.

The early Easter Lily exports to New York — vital financially to Bermuda — became badly diseased from the late 19th century to the mid 1920s.

A major source of income always came from the sale of the Easter Lily at Eastertime.

The paper-and-pin Easter Lily of the IRA was the traditional commemorative badge of the Easter Rising, whereas the self-adhesive Easter Lily of the Officials was a novel invention, symbolic of the divergence of opinion between them.

The Workers Party is sometimes referred to by other Republicans as the " Sticks " or " Stickies " because it uses adhesive stickers of the Easter Lily emblem for its 1916 commemorations whereas others, most notably ( Provisional ) Sinn Féin use a pin for theirs.

The creation of the Easter Lily as the seal was the work of Ruth Miley McClellan of Petersburg, Indiana.

Such lapsed Catholics are colloquially referred to by such terms as Cultural Catholics, Two-Timers, Chreasters, C & E Catholics, Poinsettia & Lily Catholics, CEOs ( Christmas and Easter Only ), CAPE Catholics ( Christmas, Ash, Palm, Easter ), PACE Catholics ( Palm, Ash, Christmas, Easter ), CASE Catholics ( Christmas and Sometimes Easter ), CMEs ( Christmas, Mother's Day and Easter ), Christmas Bunnies, or A & P Catholics ( for Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday ).

* Easter Lily ( badge )

The last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday ( sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday ).

Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum ( Latin for " Three Days ").

* In Easter Style dating, the new year started on Easter Saturday ( or sometimes on Good Friday ).

The Easter Bunny or Easter Rabbit is a character depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs, who sometimes is depicted with clothes.

* Holy Wednesday, sometimes called Spy Wednesday in allusion to the betrayal of Jesus by Judas Iscariot, is the Wednesday immediately preceding Easter.

The Paschal candle is sometimes referred to as the " Easter candle " or the " Christ candle.

# Five grains of incense ( most often red ) are embedded in the candle ( sometimes encased in wax " nails ") during the Easter Vigil to represent the five wounds of Jesus: one in each hand, one in each foot, and the spear thrust into his side.

Most grounds and open spaces are open throughout the year but buildings may generally only be visited from Easter to October, sometimes only in the afternoons.

Although Orthodox Christian societies sometimes richly decorate their eggs at Easter, like the Ukrainian ones as shown, it is more normal to dye eggs red all over ( perhaps using Cochineal ).

The Christmas variant ( sometimes called " reindeer corn ") typically has a red end and a green center ; the Valentine's Day variant ( sometimes called " cupid corn ") typically has a red end and a pink center ; the Easter variant ( sometimes called " bunny corn ") is typically only a two-color candy, and comes with a variety of pastel bases ( pink, green, yellow, and purple ) with white tips all in one package.

Easter Road has sometimes played host to Scottish League Cup semi-final matches, such as in the 1996, 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2006 competitions.

The Scotland under-21 team has also sometimes played matches at Easter Road, such as when Scotland played Iceland in the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification play-offs.

Major John MacBride ( sometimes mistranscribed as McBride ) ( 8 May 1868 – 5 May 1916 ) was an Irish republican executed for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Generally Lent and Fridays are set aside, though Fridays during the Easter season are sometimes avoided.

There have been reasonably successful moves to popularise the bilby as a native alternative to the Easter Bunny by selling chocolate Easter Bilbies ( sometimes with a portion of the profits going to bilby protection and research ).

There have been reasonably successful moves to popularise the bilby as a native alternative to the Easter Bunny by selling chocolate Easter Bilbies ( sometimes with a portion of the profits going to bilby protection and research ).

") is sometimes used along with Easter, Christ, Cross, Commemoration (" parastas "), sacred oil lamp (' tu-i candela ' mă-sii ), God, Church etc.

However, Russia used the Julian calendar and Julian Easter during this period, so the comparison given above applies, that the astronomical Easter agreed with the Julian Easter about every third year but was sometimes earlier than March 22 Julian.

Easter Sunday represents the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox according to the computus.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

* Easter Sunday represents the resurrection of Christ for many Christians.

An Easter Bonnet represents the tail-end of a tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter, in harmony with the renewal of the year and the promise of spiritual renewal and redemption.

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.

The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.

* 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

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.

From the death of Otto the Great until Easter 974, Adelaide accompanied the Emperor at all time, traveling throughout the Empire with him.

After the death of the Patriarch Tarasios, although still a layman, he was chosen patriarch by the wish of the emperor ( Easter, April 12, 806 ).

There was a conspiracy in 1478 to kill Lorenzo with his brother Giuliano during Easter services, the assassination attempt ending with the death of Giuliano and an injured Lorenzo ( later Giuliano and Lorenzo were buried together in the Medici Chapel ).

He fell fatally ill at Easter 1483, but lingered on long enough to add some codicils to his will, the most important being his naming of his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, as Protector after his death.

It also lists for 665 the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity (" first Easter of the Saxons ") and the death of one " Morgan ".

The Great Chronicle, compiled 30 years later from the contemporary London municipal records, says the rumour of the princes ' death did not start circulating in London until after Easter of 1484.

After his death, his successor Finan found himself challenged by a monk named Ronan, an Irishman who had been trained in Rome and who wished to see the Roman Easter established.

Thurstan supported King Stephen after Henry I's death in 1135, and appeared at Stephen's first court at Easter held at Westminster.

The liturgy held on the evening of Maundy Thursday initiates the Easter Triduum, the period which commemorates the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ ; this period includes Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and ends on the evening of Easter.

* The Notre-Dame Affair of Easter Sunday, 1950, where Michel Mourre, dressed in a Dominican's habit, took to the pulpit and began to address the congregation, informing them, before anyone realised that anything was amiss, that God was dead, and that the Catholic Church was " appropriating our life force in the name of an empty heaven ", and " infecting the world with its morality of death ".

On the death of the Emperor Henry II in 1024, he gave his support to Emperor Conrad II, who along with his consort was crowned with great pomp at St. Peter's Basilica on Easter of 1027.

He fought in the 1916 Easter Rising, served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence and became commander of the pro-treaty forces in the Irish Civil War after the death of Michael Collins.

Godfrey partly yielded, and at a ceremony on Easter Day, 1 April 1100, he announced that he would retain possession until his death, or until he conquered two great cities from the infidel, but he bequeathed Jerusalem to the Patriarch.

( 6 April, his death date, was not used because it would too often conflict with the Easter Triduum.

In the Roman rite, the gospel pericope of the Transfiguration is read on the second Sunday of Lent, whose liturgy emphasizes the role the Transfiguration had in comforting the Twelve Apostles, giving them a powerful proof of his divinity, and a prelude to the glory of the Resurrection on Easter and the eventual salvation of his followers in view of the seeming contradiction of his Crucifixion and death.

After his death, his unpopularity led the locals to parade an effigy of him around the town each Easter Monday and collect money.

The village that later became Broxburn probably originated around 1350 when Margery le Cheyne inherited the eastern half of the Barony of Strathbrock ( Easter Strathbrock ) on the death of her father, Sir Reginald le Cheyne III.

After Frank Zappa's death in December 1993, Cuccurullo performed the instrumental guitar piece " Watermelon in Easter Hay " ( from the Joe's Garage album ) in his honor at several Duran Duran shows.

In their wills, the sisters left five pieces of land in the Biddenden area comprising around in total to the local church, with the income from these lands ( claimed to have been 6 guineas per annum at the time of their death ) to provide an annual dole of bread, cheese and beer to the poor every Easter.

Just minutes after the death of his father, James Jackson, Sr. ( Martin Sheen ), James retreats to the comfort of the weaving house where Easter lives.