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Easter

Easter (a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox)

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Class: day of the week, series of events, religious festival
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Parent Class: Moveable feast, calendar date
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter
Celebrated in: the United Kingdom
Wordnet Synset ID: "115188154"
Attributes: movable-date
Open Calais URI: http://d.opencalais.com/er/company/ralg-tr1r/3ff40466-c9c6-3c1c-b52b-c99b5a0a567e
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Easter is the oldest and most important Christian festival, marking the end of the fasting season of Lent and the death, on Good (derived from God's) Friday and resurrection of Jesus Christ, on Easter Sunday. It has deeper and more complex associations than Christmas, particularly in the Orthodox Christian world. There are many customs and traditions associated with Easter which, like most other holiday and feast days, are derived from a combination of both Jewish lore and pre-Christian and pagan practices. It is named after Eostre, the goddess of fertility and birth, worshipped by first-century pagans at the vernal equinox, who believed she would bless both their families and their crops. Christian missionaries saw this celebration took place around the time of the resurrection of Christ, so they adopted Easter as a Christian holiday to increase conversion.

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