Easter, also called Pascha or Resurrection
Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his
burial after his crucifixion by Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.
It is the culmination of the Passion of
Christ, preceded
by Lent (or Great Lent), a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.
The week before Easter is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
In western Christianity, Eastertide, the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and
lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the fiftieth day, Pentecost Sunday.
In Orthodoxy, the season of Pascha begins on
Pascha and ends with the coming of the fortieth day, the Feast of the
Ascension.
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