Easter Sunday

Easter (also called Easter Sunday, the day on which this festival is celebrated) is an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox. This year Easter falls rather late, on April 24, which happens only twice in two hundred years, from 1901 to 2100 (see the frequency of the Easter instances below).

On a longer time scale Easter appearances look more like Easter Noise [ROLLOVER]. Why would anyone establish such a complicated lunisolar Easter? Jumping on the wagon of popularity of some older annual festivity, non Christian, was for early Christians a praiseworthy try. Nothing new under the Sun (and Moon, of course).

 2011-04-24 

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