Nancy's Easter Bonnet Remembrance of a family Easter bonnet tale
In a late 19th century family reminiscence, Nancy receives a cream white leghorn Easter bonnet with pink ribbons and roses. The sisters anticipate its display at church where Nancy captivates Robert Gray, and the family values devotion over vanity as moonlight reveals the bonnet’s memory. The tale ends with Nancy’s granddaughter reappearing with the same bonnet, worn but cherished.
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Chimes of Easter and Welcoming Spring
Poem celebrates Easter bells and nature waking from winter. It notes green shoots, wary children, pussy willows, birds, and the warm sun. The verse ends with the author Martha Coleman Sherman expressing wonder at spring's birth and bells.
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Martha Coleman Sherman
Easter Customs In Cyprus And Larnaca Procession
An English writer notes Cyprus and eastern church Easter customs with palm frond patterns and a vivid Mas Latrie procession in Larnaca. A bishop leads clergy, followed by the epitaphion and a bier with Christ statue, lit by candles in a magical night scene against a Turk mosque backdrop. Easter follows a strict fifty day fast and ends with feasting and joy.
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Mas Latrie
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Near East
The Caterpillar’s Death and the Birth of Life
A reflective piece compares the caterpillar’s transformation to resurrection. It recalls last summer’s sunlit days then explains the chrysalis stage as necessary death, allowing the butterfly’s fuller life to emerge through evolution.
The Great Day In Russia Easter Significance
The article notes Easter as the greatest day for Greek Orthodox believers in Russia and others. It contrasts Easter gifts for Russians with Christmas gifts for Americans and highlights Easter as a symbol of Christ’s resurrection and nature’s renewal.
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Russia
Origin of Easter Egg Birth in Ancient Legend
An ancient tale places the birth of Easter in a vast egg dropped into the Euphrates and hatched by doves, yielding Easter for Venus. Early Christians kept the feast but reinterpreted it as the resurrection of Christ, preserving the heathen name and symbol of the egg across many lands.
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Venus
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Flowers of the Passion and Easter Legends in Art
The article discusses how early Italian painters include white wood-sorrel in crucifixion scenes, said to grow at the cross and to be stained by Christ's blood. Ruskin notes the plant’s leaf coloration tied to the crucifixion tale.
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Chelan County
Ambrose
Ricker
Leavenworth
Ruskin
Easter symbols and customs across regions and a lumber update
The article notes coronation symbols tied to flowers such as the passion flower and white lily, plus the Spina christi thorn plant and willow legends. It covers Easter hot cross buns baked for Good Friday breakfast across England and details government lumber orders totaling 25,000,000 feet for Alaska, Panama Canal, and the Philippine Islands.
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