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What do eggs have to do with Easter?
How did a Christian holiday get scrambled up with colored eggs?
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Why is Christmas on December 25?
Does anyone really know when Jesus was born?
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O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree: Why do we deck thy branches?
Christmas trees have a long, colorful, and even dangerous history.
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What's the difference between Yule and Christmas?
Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals in the world.
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Celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany in Italy
Learn how the feast of the Epiphany is celebrated in Italy.
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What is Palm Sunday?
Palm Sunday is celebrated by Christian communities on the Sunday before Easter.
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The significance of Easter in Christianity
Overview of the Christian celebration of Easter.
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What and when is Easter?
Celebrations of Easter have been documented as early as the 2nd century.
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Bartholomew I
Bartholomew I, patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, attending a service in honor...
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St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas reviving three boys from the pickling tub, oak sculpture, South Netherlandish,...
Photograph by Trevor Little. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916 (16.32.193)
Shrove Tuesday Carnival in Binche, Belgium
Townsmen costumed as Gilles (versions of a clown-like stock character named Gille)...
Marie-Claire
alpha and omega
The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (top) and omega (bottom),...
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All Saints' Day
Lit candles in a cemetery commemorating All Saints' Day.
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