Yes. Easter is the day Christians celebrate Jesus rising from the dead. It falls on a Sunday in spring, the churches rank it above every other day of the year, and Christians were already keeping it in the second century. In most languages its name comes from Pascha, the Greek and Latin form of the Hebrew Pesach, Passover. Before it had a fixed date, Easter was news, passed from one disciple to another: “The Lord is risen indeed, and hath…

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