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    moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computus (Latin for 'computation'). Easter is celebrated on...
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    Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection...
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  • Reform of the date of Easter refers to proposals to change the date for the annual celebration of Easter. These proposals include setting a fixed date or...
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  • is a list of dates for Easter. The Easter dates also affect when Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, the Feast of the Ascension...
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  • nominal 21 March date. This date was important to the Christian churches because it is fundamental to the calculation of the date of Easter. To reinstate...
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  • of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in March 1997. Under the proposal, Easter...
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  • date for Easter began in Early Christianity as early as the 2nd century AD. Discussion and disagreement over the best method of computing the date of...
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  • announced the date on which Easter was to be celebrated. The council chose Alexandria because of its famous school of astronomy, and the date of Easter depends...
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  • As a result, 21 March (which is the base date for calculating the date of Easter) gradually moved out of alignment with the March equinox. While Hipparchus...
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    "Judaized" (i.e. Passover date for) Easter. The date of observance of Easter has only differed in modern times since the promulgation of the Gregorian calendar...
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  • Public holidays in Cyprus (category Culture of Cyprus)
    Sunday – date variable Easter Monday – date variable Easter Tuesday – date variable Labour Day – 1 May Pentecost Monday – date variable Dormition of the Theotokos...
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    Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific...
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    earlier. Since the date of Easter is calculated differently by Eastern and Western Christians, the date of the Western Churches' Easter Friday is often different...
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    Constantine the Great and Judaism (category Views of Judaism by individual)
    the separation of the date of Easter from the Jewish Passover (see also Quartodecimanism), stating in his letter after the First Council of Nicaea (which...
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    Coptic date of Easter is determined by a calculation based on the Alexandrian 19-year cycle, which synchronises the lunar months with the solar years of the...
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    An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another—usually electronic—medium. The term used in this manner...
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    celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day, two days after Good Friday. Since the Last Supper was a Passover Seder, the date of Easter can be calculated as the...
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    uniform observance of the date of Easter, and promulgation of early canon law. The major impetus for the calling of the Council of Nicaea arose in a theological...
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    example, Christmas Day remained on 25 December. (Easter is a moveable feast: the Act specifies how its date should be calculated.) It ordered that civil and...
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    leap years. The consequence was that the basis for the calculation of the date of Easter, as decided in the 4th century, had drifted from reality. The Gregorian...
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  • Ecclesiastical full moon (category Date of Easter)
    moon is on Sunday, Easter is the following Sunday. Thus the earliest possible date of Easter is March 22, while the latest possible date is April 25. In...
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  • tables. From about the middle of the seventh century all controversy between Alexandria and Rome as to the correct date of Easter ceased, as both churches...
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  • raged over the best option for calculating the date of Easter. The proper date of the celebration of the most significant Christian feast had already...
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    provide a special liturgy for this holy celebration. Since its date depends on the date of Easter, Pentecost is a "moveable feast". The Monday after Pentecost...
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    The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916...
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  • Google has added Easter eggs into many of its products and services, such as Google Search, YouTube, and Android since the 2000s. Easter eggs are hidden...
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    in the Julian calendar that was causing an erroneous calculation of the date of Easter. The Julian calendar had been based upon a year lasting 365.25 days...
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    Shrove Tuesday (category Culture of the United Kingdom)
    God's help in dealing with." This moveable feast is determined by the date of Easter. The expression "Shrove Tuesday" comes from the word shrive, meaning...
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    Christianity is the calculation of the date of Easter (see Computus). Most years, the Eastern Pascha falls after the Western Easter, and it may be as much as...
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    Eastern Orthodox Pascha. The date of Maslenitsa changes every year, depending on the date of the celebration of Easter. It corresponds to the Western...
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