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Ash Wednesday
What do eggs have to do with Easter?
What and when is Easter?
The Easter Story
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Christ as Ruler, with the Apostles and Evangelists (represented by the beasts). The female figures are believed to be either Santa Pudenziana and Santa Praxedes or symbols of the Jewish and Gentile churches. Mosaic in the apse of Santa Pudenziana, Rome,A
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Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
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Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd
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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
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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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What and when is Easter?
Celebrations of Easter have been documented as early as the 2nd century.
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Ash Wednesday
Parishioners attending a service on Ash Wednesday.
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The Easter Story
Explore the Biblical figures, theology, and observances of Easter and Holy Week....
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