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Easter
is annual festival commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus
Christ, and the principal feast of the Christian
year. It is celebrated on a Sunday on varying dates between
March 22 and April 25 and is therefore called a movable feast.
The origin of its name is unknown. Scholars, however, accepting
the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar
St Bede, believe it probably comes from "Eostre",
the Anglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess of spring and
fertility, to whom was dedicated a month corresponding to
April. Her festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal
equinox; traditions associated with the festival survive
in the Easter rabbit,
a symbol of fertility, and in coloured Easter eggs, originally
painted with bright colours to represent the sunlight of
spring, and used in Easter-egg-rolling contests or given
as gifts.
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Such festivals, and the stories and legends that explain their origin, were
common in ancient religions. A Greek legend tells of the return of Persephone,
daughter of Demeter, goddess of the earth, from the underworld to the light
of day; her return symbolized to the ancient Greeks the resurrection of life
in the spring after the desolation of winter. Many ancient peoples shared similar
legends. The Phrygians believed that their omnipotent deity went to sleep at
the time of the winter solstice, and they performed ceremonies with music and
dancing at the spring equinox to awaken him.
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 April is
the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and
one of four
with the length of 30 days.
April begins (astrologically)
with the sun in the sign of Aries and ends in the sign
of Taurus. Astronomically speaking,
the sun begins in the constellation of Pisces and ends
in the constellation of Aries.
The derivation of the name (Latin Aprilis) is uncertain.
The traditional etymology from the Latin aperire, "to
open," in allusion to its being the season when trees
and flowers begin to "open". Since most of the
Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April
was sacred to Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae
Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested
that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her
Greek name Aphrodite (Aphros), or from the Etruscan name
Apru. Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god
or hero, Aper or Aprus.
The Anglo-Saxons called April Oster-monath or Eostur-monath,
the period sacred to Eostre or Ostara, the pagan Saxon goddess
of spring, from whose name is derived the modern Easter.
St George's day is the twenty-third of the month; and St
Mark's Eve, with its superstition that the ghosts of those
who are doomed to die within the year will be seen to pass
into the church, falls on the twenty-fourth. In China the
symbolical ploughing of the earth by the emperor and princes
of the blood takes place in their third month, which frequently
corresponds to our April; and in Japan the feast of Dolls
is celebrated in the same month.
The "days of April" (journées d'avril)
is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections
at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of
Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures,
and to a famous trial known as the procès d'avrill.
April was originally the second month of the Roman calendar,
before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius
about 700 BC. It became the fourth month of the calendar
year (the year when twelve months are displayed in order)
during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC, when it also
was given 29 days. The Julian calendar reform of 46 BC gave
April 30 days, effective in 45 BC.
Other April Facts:
- April begins on the same day of the week as July every
year, and as January in leap years.
- April's birth flower are the daisy and sweet pea.
- April's birthstone is the diamond.
- April in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent
to October in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.
Picture: April, from the Très riches
heures du duc de Berry
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