Lily Legends and Easter Flowers in Churches
The piece tells of Tamara and Plini the Caucasus lily legend where Tamara is transformed into a lily and Plini becomes a rain shower over the lilies. It also urges simple reverent church floral displays, praising daisies and daffodils over exotic blooms. The voice attributes the reflections to Gertrude M. O Reilly and Margaret B. Sangster Jr.
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Gertrude M. O’reilly
Philadelphia Ledger
Solomon
Caucasus
Tamara
Plini
Greece
Phini
Anon
Christ
Margaret B. Sangster, Jr
Hare Bounty Custom From Warwickshire Parish
A medieval Coleshill custom in Warwickshire promised Calf's meat, a hundred eggs, and gold coins to any young man who caught a hare and delivered it to the parish parson before ten on Easter Monday breakfast time, but the tradition is said to have no foundation.
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Warwick
England
Coleshill
Three in the garden lilies and a spirit child
A reflective meditation from Henry M. Edmunds in the Indianapolis News about lovers who transform through faith and sacrifice. They share a deep spiritual journey in a twilight landscape, with lilies symbolizing joy, struggle, birth, and enduring love as a message to future generations.
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Henry M. Edmunds
Indianapolis News
Easter Joyful Glad Tidings in Christian Herald Verse
The passage celebrates Easter with reverent imagery of bells, alar, and uplifted spirits. It references the risen Jesus, the Easter message of life over death, and the comforting fragrance of incense as believers praise in joyful hymns and psalms. Eben E. Rexford is quoted.
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Christ
Eben E. Rexford
The
Christian Herald
Easter Water Bathing Tradition Across Europe
The article describes Easter water as a yearly preservative for health, stating that washing with snow or rain water on Easter is effective. In Saxony peasants bring horses into the water to ward off sickness. The water’s virtue depends on drawing it with the wind due east.
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Saxony
Europe
Easter Meaning Reflected in Springtime Observance
The article reflects on Easter’s core message of resurrection and new life, linking spiritual hope with spring’s physical renewal and vivid imagery. It emphasizes faith’s promises realized in the season’s blooms and renewal.
The Old Road to Paradise In War’s Grim Wake
A reflective poem notes youth as a rose and dusk as amethyst while contrasting winding paths from night to day. It laments the wet battlefields where few roads lead away from grief and death, and honors fallen souls marching with a shared, stark memory.
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Paradise
Easter Lily Appears After Seraphic Censer Tale
Minna Irving narrates a lyrical image where a worship moment yields a transcendent scent and light. A vanished seraph choir leaves a pearly censer and an Easter lily on altar steps, turning a dim church into a scene of quiet wonder.
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Minna Irving
Lippincott
Resolutions Bloom in Easter Season
The piece urges making fresh resolutions during Easter as spring renews life. It links renewed mind and heart to Easter music and nature’s thaw, noting how weather, birds, and flowers reinforce resolve. It encourages modest inner improvements even without new clothes.
Easter Brings Fulfillment to Spring's Flowering Season
The text reflects how the coming of Easter elevates spring with sacred sentiment and emotional beauty, marking the religious festival as a supreme touch amid bloom and renewal.
Easter Cross Stones Of Patrick County Virginia
In Patrick county Virginia unique Easter gifts are made from staurolite crosses found in local limestone. The six sided prisms form Roman Maltese and Greek crosses ranging from one to two inches, often worn as pendants or necklaces. Locals believe the crosses are found only in their county and the stones vary in color from reddish brown to gray.
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Patrick County
Virginia
Resurrection An Easter Carol by Frederick Meres
A poem recounts Easter events with the tomb sealed and the Angel rolling away the stone. The risen Christ shines in glory as guards flee and Mary Magdelene encounters the empty tomb. The Angel proclaims resurrection and forgiveness for sinners as Jesus appears in glory.
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Frederick Meres
Magdalen
Mary
Christ
What the Season Means to Us
The excerpt urges Easter season reflections on living the risen life now rather than clinging to earthly concerns. It questions how Christ's resurrection should shape character and life plans, warning that without this influence we may be worse, not better, after Passion week.
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Heath
Isles
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