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unusual facts about Easter Day



All Saints' Church, Hawton

Most famous is the Easter Sepulchre, which would have been used to reserve the consecrated bread and wine between Maundy Thursday and Easter Day, during which period there would have been no celebration of Holy Communion, and the consecrated elements would have been reserved in the Sepulchre.

Anastasios Christodoulou

Christodoulou had been born on Easter Day and was named 'Anastasios' by his parents, meaning 'Resurrection'.


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Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1850.

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, a Poem (1850) is, despite the title, often treated as two poems by Robert Browning, rather than as one poem in two parts.

Deseado

A Tasmanian Police Kawasaki BK 117 rescue/Emergency medical services helicopter had earlier winched off the owner-yachtsman in 8 m waves on 16 April 2006 (Easter day), after he set off his EPIRB (radio beacon).

Pietro Giannone

But he was induced to visit a Catholic village within Sardinian territory, in order to hear mass on Easter day.

Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica

On Easter Day, 11 April 1880, a blessing ceremony and ceremony of completion were solemnly organized in presence of the Governor of Cochinchina Charles Le Myre de Vilers.