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The date of Easter

Prior to A.D. 325, Easter was variously The Easter Egg

celebrated on different days of the week, As with the Easter Bunny

including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In and the holiday itself, the Easter

that year, the Council of Nicaea was

Egg predates the Christian holiday

convened by emperor Constantine. It issued

of Easter. The exchange of eggs in

the Easter Rule which states that Easter shall

The Easter Bunny be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs

the springtime is a custom that

The Easter Bunny is not a modern after the first full moon on or after the vernal was centuries old when Easter was

invention. The symbol originated with the equinox. However, a first celebrated by Christians.

pagan festival of Eastre. The goddess, caveat must be introduced here. The "full

Eastre, was worshipped by the Anglo- moon" in the rule is the ecclesiastical full

Saxons through her earthly symbol, the moon, which is defined as the fourteenthday

rabbit. of a tabular lunation, where day 1

corresponds to the ecclesiastical New Moon.

It does not always occur on the same date as

the astronomical full moon. The ecclesiastical

"vernal equinox" is always on March 21.

Therefore, Easter must be celebrated on a

Sunday between the dates of March 22 and