Easter Sentence Examples

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  • It's Easter morning and we're on our way to church.

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  • There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers.

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  • About the same time the cycle of paschal solemnities was extended to the ninth week before Easter by the institution of stational masses for Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sundays.

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  • In the Roman Catholic Church the vigil is now usually celebrated on the morning of the day preceding the festival, except at Christmas, when a midnight mass is celebrated, and on Easter Eve.

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  • He evaded the request and secured a truce until Easter was passed.

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  • The burning of the paschal candle still forms part of the Easter ceremonial of the Roman Catholic Church.

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  • The justices were authorized to fix wages at the Easter quarter sessions.

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  • She twisted in her chair to see a man near the dark windows whose eyes were the color of her bright purple Easter dress.

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  • William the Conqueror in 1084 celebrated Easter at Abingdon, and left his son, afterwards Henry I., to be educated at the abbey.

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  • Generally speaking, the Western churches kept Easter on the first day of the week, while the Eastern churches followed the Jewish rule, and kept Easter on the fourteenth day.

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  • Don't wait up for the Easter Bunny for that one.

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  • The correct date of the Easter festival was to be calculated at Alexandria, the home of astronomical science, and the bishop of that see was to announce it yearly to the churches under his jurisdiction, and also to the occupant of the Roman see, by whom it was to be communicated to the Western churches.

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  • Easter, as commemorating the central fact of the Christian religion, has always been regarded as the chief festival of the Christian year, and according to a regulation of Constantine it was to be the first day of the year.

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  • Many ecclesiastical ceremonies, growing up from early times, clustered round the celebration of the Easter festival.

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  • On every Christian, of either sex, arrived at years of discretion, the duty was imposed of confessing at least once annually and of receiving the Eucharist at least at Easter (Canon 21).

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  • The most important fairs are held at Easter and Michaelmas, and are said to have been founded as markets about 1170.

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  • Sunday night Alex left again, but this time with a promise to come back for Easter.

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  • He submitted to the opinion of the episcopate in the various parts of Christendom the divergence between the Easter usage of Rome and that of the bishops of Asia.

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  • In Gaul we with many other cities kept Easter on the fourteenth calends of May, others, as the Spaniards, on the twelfth calends of April."

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  • The difference between them and the Roman Church, at this period, was that they still followed the 84 years' cycle in computing Easter, which had been abandoned at Rome for the more accurate cycle of 532 years.

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  • This difference of calculation led to Easter being observed on different Sundays, in certain years, in England, by the adherents of the two churches.

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  • None of the colossal structures hitherto described appears to have been erected by the present Melanesian or Polynesian peoples, while their wide diffusion, extending as far as Easter Island, within 400 m.

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  • On Easter day an altar was erected, mass celebrated in presence of the natives, the country declared an apanage of Portugal, and a stone cross erected in commemoration of the event.

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  • Beyond the walls lay the burghs of Calton, Easter and Wester Portsburgh, the villages of St Cuthbert's, Moutrie'sHill,Broughton,Canonmills, SilvermillsandDeanhaugh - all successively swallowed up in the extension of the modern city.

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  • The meetings took place either in the Rathaus, or town hall, or, when they were held - as was usually the case - on Sunday, in the church; and three times a year, at Easter, Whitsuntide and Christmas, special festivals and singing competitions were instituted.

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  • The answer was given at Easter 1880, when the Liberals were returned by an overwhelming majority over Tories and Home Rulers combined.

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  • It comprises the royal and police burghs of Anstruther Easter (pop. 1190), Anstruther Wester (501) and Kilrenny (2542), and lies 9 m.

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  • In Umbrian villages on Easter Sunday the images of Jesus and His Mother are carried in rival processions from their respective chapels, and are made to bow when they meet face to face.

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  • In France, under the third race of kings, it was usual to begin the year with Easter; and this practice continued at least till the middle of the 16th century, for an edict was issued by Charles IX.

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  • In the second case the year has been supposed to begin with the 25th of March, or perhaps with Easter; consequently the first three months of the year 814, reckoning from the ist of January, would be referred to the end of the year 813.

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  • For this purpose they adopted a cycle of eighty-four years, which is mentioned by several of the ancient fathers of the church, and which the early Christians borrowed from them for the regulation of Easter.

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  • Buccherius places the beginning of this cycle in the year 162 B.C.; Prideaux in the year 291 B.C. According to the account of Prideaux, the fifth cycle must have begun in the year 46 of our era; and it was in this year, according to St Prosperus, that the Christians began to employ the Jewish cycle of eighty-four years, which they followed, though not uniformly, for the regulation of Easter, till the time of the Council of Nice.

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  • In their civil affairs the Armenians follow the ancient vague year of the Egyptians; but their ecclesiastical year, which begins on the 1 1th of August, is regulated in the same manner as the Julian year, every fourth year consisting of 366 days, so that Easter and the other festivals are retained at the same place in the seasons as well as in the civil year.

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  • Gerberga and her children were delivered up and disappear from history; the siege of Pavia was undertaken; and at Easter 774 the king left the seat of war and visited Rome, where he was received with great respect.

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  • At Easter 781, Carloman, his second son by Hildegarde, was renamed Pippin and crowned king of Italy by Pope Adrian, and his youngest son Louis was crowned king of Aquitaine; but no mention was made at the time of his eldest son Charles, who was doubtless intended to be king of the Franks.

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  • Ready by the 3rd of January 1553, the bulk of the impression was privately consigned to Lyons and Frankfort for the Easter market.

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  • The Pacific Ocean consists mainly of one enormous basin bounded on the west by New Zealand and the Tonga, Marshall aid Marianne ridges, on the north by the festoons of islands marking off the North Pacific fringing seas, on the east by the coast of North America and the great Easter Island Rise and on the south by the Antarctic Shelf.

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  • But unfortunately all he says is that with regard' to the certain things the two bishops speedily came to an understanding, while as to the time of Easter, each adhered to his own custom, without breaking off communion with the other.

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  • Among the principal buildings are the town hall, court house, public hall, Easter Ross combination poorhouse, and the academy (opened in 1812).

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  • On Easter Sunday the queen ventured to display her personal preference for the Protestant conception of the eucharist by forbidding the celebrant in her chapel to elevate the host.

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  • In a great sermon on the 10th of April (Easter week) 1588, he stoutly vindicated the Protestantism of the Church of England against the Romanists, and, oddly enough, adduced "Mr Calvin" as a new writer, with lavish praise and affection.

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  • Until the end of the 11th century its use was confined to bishops, and to priests at Easter and on their installation.

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  • An annual pleasure fair is held on Easter Monday, and a regatta in August or September.

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  • This sacrifice of local autonomy was in a measure prepared for by an earlier centralizing movement proper to the churches themselves, whereby those in certain areas met in conference or " synod " to formulate a common policy on local problems. Such inter-church meetings cannot be traced back beyond the latter half of the 2nd century, and were purely ad hoc and informal, called to consider specific questions like Montanism and Easter observance.

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  • One of his first public acts was to hold the well-known Easter synod of 1049, at which celibacy of the clergy (down to the rank of subdeacon) was anew enjoined, and where he at least succeeded in making clear his own convictions against every kind of simony.

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  • After his return to Rome he held (29th April 1050) another Easter synod, which was occupied largely with the controversy about the teachings of Berengarius of Tours; in the same year he presided over provincial synods at Salerno, Siponto and Vercelli, and in September revisited Germany, returning to Rome in time for a third Easter synod, at which the question of the reordination of those who had been ordained by simonists was considered.

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  • After a fourth Easter synod in 1053 Leo set out against the Normans in the south with an army of Italians and German volunteers, but his forces sustained a total defeat at Astagnum near Civitella (18th June 1053); on going out, however, from the city to meet the enemy he was received with every token of submission, relief from the pressure of his ban was implored and fidelity and homage were sworn.

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  • Frederick, on his side, invaded the Papal States and prevented the assembling of a general council convoked for Easter 1241.

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  • In matters of ritual they agreed with the Western Church on the continent, save in a few particulars such as the precise time of keeping Easter and manner of tonsure.

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  • From about the beginning of the 12th century, when it became usual to baptize infants soon after their birth instead of at stated times (Easter and Pentecost), the ceremony of scrutiny was incorporated with that of the actual baptism.

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  • Taking advantage of the Easter recess, when most of the malcontents were out of town, they suddenly, on the 3rd of May, brought the whole question before the diet and demanded urgency for it.

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  • The influence of the priests kept up the fanaticism of the peasants, and a great manifestation of religious feeling took place on Easter eve, but the republican soldiers taken prisoners were often maltreated and even tortured.

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  • In 1786 Jean Francois Galoup de La Perouse, in the course of the famous voyage from which he never returned, visited Easter Island, Samoa and Tonga.

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  • The most remarkable of these are on Easter Island, where immense platforms built of dressed stone without mortar are found, together with stone images.

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  • Stone axes, remains of carved stone pillars similar to those of Easter Island, and skeletons with a pearl-mussel beneath the head have been found in the island, though it was uninhabited when discovered by Philip Carteret in 1767.

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  • A court-leet and view of frank pledge used to be held half-yearly at Easter and Michaelmas, and a court-baron in May.

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  • From the beginning the sermons of Oecolampadius centred in the Atonement, and his first reformatory zeal showed itself in a protest (De risu paschali, 1518) against the introduction of humorous stories into Easter sermons.

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  • In the Easter of this year !Ethelred died, perhaps of wounds received in the wars against the Danes, and was buried at Wimborne.

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  • A fresh charter was granted in 1207 by King John to the inhabitants of Dublin, who had not yet made their peace with the neighbourhood, but, like the settlers in other towns, were at constant feud with the native Irish; so that two years after the date of this charter, whilst the citizens of Dublin were celebrating Easter at Cullenswood, they were set upon by the Irish of the neighbouring mountains, and 500 of them killed.

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  • The scene of slaughter is still called the Bloody Fields, and Easter Monday denominated Black Monday.

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  • In the first place, there were in early days far more bishops in proportion to the number of believers than is the custom now; and, secondly, it was the rule (except in cases of emergency) to baptize only in the season from Easter to Pentecost, and the bishop was always present and laid his hands on the newly baptized.

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  • In general, churchwardens are appointed in Easter week, usually Easter Monday or Easter Tuesday, but in new parishes the first appointment must be within twenty-one days after the consecration of the church, or two calendar months after the formation of the parish, subsequent appointments taking place at the usual time for the appointment of parish officers.

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  • So Early As The Znd Century Of Our Era, Great Disputes Had Arisen Among The Christians Respecting The Proper Time Of Celebrating Easter, Which Governs All The Other Movable Feasts.

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  • Most Christian Sects Agreed That Easter Should Be Celebrated On A Sunday.

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  • In Order To Terminate Dissensions, Which Produced Both Scandal And Schism In The Church, The Council Of Nicaea, Which Was Held In The Year 325, Ordained That The Celebration Of Easter Should Thenceforth Always Take Place On The Sunday Which Immediately Follows The Full Moon That Happens Upon, Or Next After, The Day Of The Vernal Equinox.

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  • Should The 14Th Of The Moon, Which Is Regarded As The Day Of Full Moon, Happen On A Sunday, The Celebration Of Easter Was Deferred To The Sunday Following, In Order To Avoid Concurrence With The Jews And The Above Mentioned Heretics.

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  • The Observance Of This Rule Renders It Necessary To Reconcile Three Periods Which Have No Common Measure, Namely, The Week, The Lunar Month, And The Solar Year; And As This Can Only Be Done Approximately, And Within Certain Limits, The Determination Of Easter Is An Affair Of Considerable Nicety And Complication.

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  • It Is To Be Regretted That The Reverend Fathers Who Formed The Council Of Nicaea Did Not Abandon The Moon Altogether, And Appoint The First Or Second Sunday Of April For The Celebration Of The Easter Festival.

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  • This is called the Dionysian or Great Paschal Period, from its having been employed by Dionysius Exiguus, familiarly styled " Denys the Little," in determining Easter Sunday.

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  • Hence Easter Sunday Cannot Happen Earlier Than The 22Nd Of March, Or Later Than The 25Th Of April.

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  • The Dominical Letter Of The Year, And Observe In The Calendar The First Day, After The Fourteenth Of The Moon, Which Corresponds To The Dominical Letter; This Will Be Easter Sunday.

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  • Required the day on which Easter Sunday falls in the year 1840 ?

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  • From these conditions it follows that the paschal full moon, or the 14th of the paschal moon, cannot happen before the 21st of March, and that Easter in consequence cannot happen before the 22nd of March.

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  • Therefore, in 1840, Easter Sunday falls on the 19th of April.

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  • Such is the very complicated and artificial, though highly ingenious method, invented by Lilius, for the determination of Easter and the other movable feasts.

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  • Its principal, though perhaps least obvious advantage, consists in its being entirely independent of astronomical tables, or indeed of any celestial phenomena whatever; so that all chances of disagreement arising from the inevitable errors of tables, or the uncertainty of observation, are avoided, and Easter determined without the possibility of mistake.

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  • The Epacts Are Also Placed So As To Indicate The Full Moons Generally One Or Two Days After The True Full Moons; But This Was Done Purposely, To Avoid The Chance Of Concurring With The Jewish Passover, Which The Framers Of The Calendar Seem To Have Considered A Greater Evil Than That Of Celebrating Easter A Week Too Late.

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  • Having Determined The Epact Of The Year, It Only Remains To Find Easter Sunday From The Conditions Already Laid Down.

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  • P= 54 E 1=57 E, Or (57 E) 7 R' By Substituting One Or Other Of These Values Of P And 1, According A; The Case May Be, In The Formula P = P (L L), We Shall Have P, Orthe Number Of Days From The 21St Of March To Easter Sunday.

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  • By Means Of The Formulae Which We Have Now Given For The Dominical Letter, The Golden Number And The Epact, Easter Sunday May Be Computed For Any Year After The Reformation, Without The Assistance Of Any Tables Whatever.

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  • As An Example, Suppose It Were Required To Compute Easter For The Year 1840.

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  • For The Golden Number We Have N = (401 $ 1) R; Therefore L = Before Easter.

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  • Instead, However, Of Employing The Golden Numbers And Epacts For The Determination Of Easter And The Movable Feasts, It Was Resolved That The Equinox And The Paschal Moon Should Be Found By Astronomical Computation From The Rudolphine Tables.

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  • With Respect To The Movable Feasts, Easter Is Determined By The Rule Laid Down By The Council Of Nice; But Instead Of Employing The New Moons And Epacts, The Golden Numbers Are Prefixed To The Days Of The Full Moons.

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  • He was one of the disputants selected to confute the Romanists at the conference of Westminster after Easter 1J59; he was select preacher at St Paul's cross on the 15th of June; and in the autumn was engaged as one of the royal visitors of the western counties.

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  • A certain king, Alchfrith, is said to have given the site of the town to Eata, abbot of Melrose, to found a monastery, but before it was completed Eata was deposed for refusing to celebrate Easter according to the Roman usage, and St Wilfrid was appointed the first abbot.

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  • At the beginning of the struggle Julius had to endure many a hard blow; but his courage never failed - or, at most, but for a moment - even after the French victory at Ravenna, on Easter Sunday 1512.

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  • At its very commencement, the pope in his first encyclical (Easter 1878) proclaimed the necessity of a temporal hierarchy.

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  • Chalcedon was repudiated afresh, union with the Jacobites instituted, use of water and leaven in the Eucharist condemned, the five days' preliminary fast before Lent restored, Saturday as well as Sunday made a day of feasting and synaxis, any but the orthodox excluded from the Maundy Thursday Communion, the first communion of the new catechumens; union of the Baptismal and Christmas feasts was restored, and the faithful forbidden to fast on Fridays from Easter until Pentecost.

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  • The charter of 1576 confirms this market and fair to the burgesses, and grants them two new fairs each continuing for two days, on Tuesday after Easter and on the feast of St Matthew the Apostle.

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  • It is held forty days after Easter, or ten days before Whitsunday, in celebration of Christ's ascension into heaven forty days after the resurrection.

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  • This candle, lighted at every mass for the forty days after Easter, symbolizes the presence of Christ with his disciples, and its extinction his parting from them.

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  • In the Anglican Church Ascension Day and its octave continue to be observed as a great festival, for which a special preface to the consecration prayer in the communion service is provided, as in the case of Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and Trinity Sunday.

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  • After two clumsy attempts had been made to poison him at Perez's table, he was killed by bravos on the night of Easter Monday, the 31st of March 1578.

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  • Alaric was an Arian Christian who trusted to the sanctity of Easter for immunity from attack, and the enemies of Stilicho reproached him for having gained his victory by taking an unfair advantage of the great Christian festival.

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  • The cardinals, however, "propter honorem Communis Januae," determined to carry out this consecration on the Sunday after Easter.

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  • On Easter Eve 1777 some persons, deputed by a meeting which consisted of forty of the first booksellers in London, called upon him.

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  • Maundy Thursday is sometimes known as Sheer or Chare Thursday, either in allusion, it is thought, to the "shearing" of heads and beards in preparation for Easter, or more probably in the word's Middle English sense of "pure," in allusion to the ablutions of the day.

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  • The period of the hot winds, called the khamsin, that is, the fifties, is calculated from the day after the Coptic Easter, and terminates on the day of Pentecost, and the Moslems observe the Wednesday preceding this period, called Jobs Wednesday, as well as its first day, when many go into the country from Cairo, to smell the air.

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  • The incorporation charter of 1605 recites that the burgesses are chiefly engaged in agriculture, and grants them a fair, which still continues every year on Tuesday in Easter week.

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  • Penalties are set on the refusal to celebrate Easter in accordance with the Nicene decree, as well as on leaving a church before the service of the Eucharist is completed.

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  • Admiral Roggeveen reached it on Easter day 1722; in 1774 Captain Cook discovered it anew and called it Teapi or Waihu.

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  • Easter Island is famous for its wonderful archaeological remains.

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  • The present inhabitants of Easter Island know nothing of the construction of these remarkable works; and the entire subject of their existence in this small and remote island is a mystery.

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  • The Celtic church, unluckily, differed from the Roman on the question of the method of calculating the date of Easter, the form of the tonsure, and other usages, one of them apparently relating to a detail in the celebration of the Holy Communion.

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  • Certain obscure religious usages, as regards Lent, the Communion, the non-observance of Sunday, non-communicating at Easter, and the Forbidden Degrees in marriage, were brought into conformity with western Christendom.

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  • He postponed the threat till Easter 1625, but, says Calderwood, " The Lord removed him out of the way fourteen days before the Easter Communion."

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  • He had induced Peter to make good his somewhat shadowy claims to the crown of Sicily, but while preparations were being made for the expedition, the popular rising known as the Sicilian Vespers, which resulted in the massacre of nearly all the French in the island, broke out at Palermo on Easter Day 1282.

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  • It was one of the old quarter-days, being equivalent to midsummer, the others being Martinmas, equivalent to Michaelmas, Candlemas (Christmas) and Whitsuntide (Easter).

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  • More than once at Easter he is said to have had a convenient illness which dispensed him from granting absolution to Louis XIV.

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  • Next came the Sabbatum Magnum (Holy Saturday or Easter Eve) with its vigil, which in the early church was associated with an expectation that the second advent would occur on an Easter Sunday.

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  • In Easter term r810 he had obtained double first class honours, a distinction which had been obtained only once before, by Sir Robert Peel.

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  • Several Russian friends and companions, from Kiev and Old Novgorod, are recorded by Daniel as present with him at the Easter Eve "miracle," in the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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  • He succeeded in keeping in touch with the extreme elements in Ireland and in arranging with them the rebellion planned for Easter week 1916, of which he himself proposed to take the lead.

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  • At the beginning stands the usual introductory matter, such as the tables for determining the date of Easter, the calendar, and the general rubrics.

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  • On Easter Eve the new fire, symbol of the light of the newly risen Christ, is produced, and from this are kindled all the lights used throughout the Christian year until, in the gathering darkness (tenebrae) of the Passion, they are gradually extinguished.

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  • On Easter Eve new fire is made 3 with a flint and steel, and blessed; from this three candles are lighted, the lumen Christi, and from these again the Paschal Candle.

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  • Pilgrims from all parts of the East flock to Jerusalem to obtain the " new fire " on Easter Eve at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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  • They were probably at first merely the fasts preparatory to the three great festivals of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost.

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  • Amongst them may be mentioned a history of the dispute with Palamas; biographies of his uncle and early instructor John, metropolitan of Heraclea, and of the martyr Codratus of Antioch; funeral orations for Theodore Metochita, and the two emperors Andronicus; commentaries on the wanderings of Odysseus and on Synesius's treatise on dreams; tracts on orthography and on words of doubtful meaning; a philosophical dialogue called Florentius or Concerning Wisdom; astronomical treatises on the date of Easter and the preparation of the astrolabe; and an extensive correspondence.

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  • While on a mission to the court of King Aldfrith of Northumberland in 686, he was led to adopt the Roman rules with regard to the time for celebrating Easter and the tonsure, and on his return to Iona he tried without success to enforce the change upon the monks.

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  • The commonest form of medieval historical writing was the chronicle, which reaches all t he way from monastic annals, mere notes on Easter tables, to the dignity of national monuments.

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  • Every Sunday from Michaelmas till Easter was a public day with Gilpin.

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  • On Easter Eve 1519, feeling that the end was near, he made his will.

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  • After wandering under an assumed name for three months through Modena, Milan and Turin, he at last reached Geneva, where he enjoyed the friendship of the most distinguished citizens, and was on excellent terms with the great publishing firms. But in an evil hour he was induced to visit a Catholic village within Sardinian territory in order to hear mass on Easter day, where he was kidnapped by the agents of the Sardinian government, conveyed to the castle of Miolans and thence successively transferred to Ceva and Turin.

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  • A letter of Pope Boniface helped to decide him, and after consulting his friends and counsellors, of whom the priest Coifi afterwards took a prominent part in destroying the temple at Goodmanham, he was baptized with his people and nobles at York, at Easter 627.

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  • Before it was introduced he went to Belfast in Easter week, and at a great demonstration, presided over by Sir Edward Carson, encouraged the Ulstermen to trust to themselves; Belfast was again, he said, a besieged city; the Government by the Parliament Act had erected a boom against them - they would burst that boom; and it would be said of them that they had saved themselves by their exertions, and would save the Empire by their example.

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  • The piece is obviously connected with the Easter cycle of liturgical drama, and the subject is treated in the York and Townley plays.

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  • He was a Scythian by birth, and did not come to Rome till after 496; his learning was considerable for his times, and to him we owe the employment of the Christian era and a new way of reckoning Easter.

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  • Leith cemetery is situated at Seafield and the Eastern cemetery in Easter Road.

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  • Baptisms were usually conferred at Easter and in the season of Pentecost which ensued, and by the bishop or by priests and deacons commissioned by him.

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  • We hear of all three feasts being habitually chosen in Jerusalem early in the 4th century, but fifty years later baptisms seem to have been almost confined to Easter.

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  • It was also known formerly as White Sunday, being still officially termed by the Roman Catholic Church Dominica in albis, " Sunday in white garments," in allusion to the white garments anciently worn on this day by those who had been baptized and received into the Church just before Easter.

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  • Penitents, therefore (as a rule), were excused the painful ordeal of public humiliation, but performed their penances in secret; only at the end they were publicly reconciled by the bishop. This was at Rome and Milan appointed to be done on the Thursday before Easter, and gradually became a regular practice, the same penitent year after year doing penance during Lent, and being publicly restored to communion in Holy Week.

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  • At Easter, nothing having, been yet obtained from the king, an army headed by five earls, forty barons, and Giles Braose, bishop of Hereford, mustered at Stamford and marched on.

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  • In that treatise (c. 15) he approves indeed of the church practice of not fasting on Saturdays and Sundays (as elsewhere, De corona, c. 3, he had expressed his concurrence in the other practice of observing the entire period between Easter and Pentecost as a season of joy); but otherwise he evinces great dissatisfaction with the indifference of the church as to the number, duration and severity of her fasts.'

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  • The synod of Hippo (393 A.D.) enacted that the sacrament of the altar should always be taken fasting, except on the Thursday before Easter.

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  • The Romans fasted three weeks continuously before Easter (Saturdays and Sundays excepted).

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  • Others (the Constantinopolitans) began their fasts seven weeks before Easter, but fasted only on alternate weeks, five days at a time.

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  • All Wednesdays and Fridays are also fast days except those that occur in the period between Easter and Whitsunday.

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  • The evens or vigils before Christmas, the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Easter day, Ascension day, Pentecost, St Matthias, the Nativity of St John Baptist, St Peter, St James, St Bartholomew, St Matthew, St Simon and St Jude, St Andrew, St Thomas, and All Saints are also recognized as " fast days."

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  • Easter Gledstanes, the seat of the family from the 13th to the 17th century, and the estate of Arthurshiels, occupied by them for nearly a hundred years more, are situated about 31 m.

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  • It commanded that the laity communicate at Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide.

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  • When Louis tried to leave the Tuileries for St Cloud at Easter 1791, in order to enjoy the ministrations of a nonjuring priest, the National Guards of Paris would not let him budge.

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  • Towards the end of 1 345 he proclaimed himself " emperor of the Serbs and the Greeks," and was as such solemnly crowned at Uskiib on Easter Day 1346.

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  • The device is common in ecclesiastical art, but the name is especially given in the Church of Rome to a small cake made of the wax of the Easter candles and impressed with this figure.

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  • Since the 9th century it has been customary for the popes to bless these cakes, and distribute them on the Sunday after Easter among the faithful, by whom they are highly prized as having the power to avert evil.

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  • The chief points of difference were the calculation of Easter and the form of the tonsure, in addition to questions of discipline such as the consecration of bishops per saltum and bishops without dioceses.

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  • In the calculation of Easter the Irish employed the old Roman and Jewish 84-years' cycle which they may have received from St Patrick and which had once prevailed all over Europe.

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  • He was deputed by a synod of the church in Wessex to remonstrate with the Britons of Domnonia (Devon and Cornwall) on their differences from the Roman practice in the shape of the tonsure and the date of Easter.

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  • Although he retained the Irish Easter, his character and energy in missionary work won him the respect of Honorius and Felix.

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  • The renters would be there until Easter, when they planned to go back up north.

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  • Surely no one would come all the way out here on a Sunday to seek veterinary services from Alex – especially not dressed like that... and on Easter morning.

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  • Look out for the new Reference altos that should appear by Easter 2003.

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  • There is also an Easter Egg, which is rather amusing.

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  • The rent was £ 10 per year with two fat hens at Christmas and two fat capons at Easter.

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  • From here, the High Easter innings collapsed and with David Coyle bowling to a field of close catchers, wickets began to tumble.

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  • You could make make your own cards in the shape of Easter eggs or fluffy yellow chicks.

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  • At the Easter Visitations, new churchwardens for each parish were sworn in to act during the following year.

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  • Eventually she discovers that real Easter eggs come from broody hen, Mavis, rather than the local confectioner.

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  • The issues that needed to be resolved were the date of Easter and the Arian controversy.

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  • In 1937, in fact Easter Sunday, I remember working on the Top Coal face helping to install a 20in belt conveyor.

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  • Art & images for Easter crucifixion Images The Ecole Initiative Range of crucifixion image.

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  • Or, maybe you are looking for Easter decorations, baby shower decorations, or even prom decorations?

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  • Sales up by 15% Sales improved after the slight dip endured over the Easter period.

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  • Easter picked up the ball from the back of a scrum and broke downfield, before releasing Keogh out on the right flank.

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  • I don't want anything to stop me of celebrating the Easter with my family.

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  • Further prayer the following Easter brought further understanding of myself.

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  • Pwllheli is also set for a busy Easter, with self-catering accommodation proving very popular.

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  • Also helped by the late Easter was Naples where passenger volume rose 14.9% .

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  • But last Easter he talked her into giving it a try and a month later venture capitalists dropped $ 1m into their laps.

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  • Easter eggs abound - the kids have already had three each, none bought by us, I hasten to add!

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  • Easter holidays The school Easter holidays are a popular time to take a package holidays abroad.

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  • Easter break full of fun, activity and entertainment Butlins at Bognor Regis is a must!

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  • Easter weekend traditionally marks the start of the garden visiting season.

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  • The first chocolate Easter eggs were made by Fry's of Bristol.

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  • Easter Holidays The school Easter Holidays The school Easter holidays are a popular time to take a package holidays abroad.

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  • We still have limited availability on our 3 day and 5 day Easter courses tho places are now filling very quickly.

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  • The word Easter is thought to have derived from the goddess Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon Goddess.

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  • The different names for Easter In many European languages the name Easter comes from the word Passover.

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  • Chelsea Chelsea's excited group had refreshments and football Easter eggs for their first session.

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  • But that does not make lent or Easter into a pagan festival today.

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  • The solitary change is positional and involves Nick Easter moving from blindside flanker to number 8, swapping with Andre Vos.

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  • Ever since then, Easter Day has been celebrated on the Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox.

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  • If sufficient churches respond positively a revised text will be prepared to be launched at a major European ecumenical gathering at Easter 2001.

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  • April 26 th 1916 Easter was duly observed in Foxearth in spite of 40 brave lads away from the parish on active service.

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  • Withdraw legacy multiuser machines - due Easter 2004 The legacy multiuser machines - due Easter 2004 The legacy solaris multiuser machines should be withdrawn from service.

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  • April 2006 Staff at Folly Farm's zoo are ecstatic this Easter, with the successful breeding of their endangered lemurs.

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  • This was mostly in search of Easter eggs, of which there was a fairly measly selection.

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  • It's a look of bemused wonder mirrored only by the enigmatic stone monoliths of Easter Island.

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  • Certainly, in media interviews the normally voluble economics graduate was virtually monosyllabic, his face resembling an Easter Island statue.

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  • The park is host to many events from Easter onwards and catering outlets are stationed around the park, including at the swimming pool.

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  • Easter 1988 - the boat's first long outing At the builders, the engine was fitted together with the interior paneling.

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  • Finally, graduates return to us about easter time ready to begin to mimic the work of a qualified pharmacist.

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  • Easter approaches and for many the festival is about celebrating the rebirth of Christ.

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  • Easter captures the time of extreme despair and distress which is overcome with the glorious resurrection of Jesus.

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  • You'll find everything you need to plan for spring and Easter, including Language & Ski courses and A-level revision courses.

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  • During the war an armed rising was attempted in Dublin during Easter week, 1916.

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  • I for one am glad that my Easter faith does not depend on handling deadly snakes or drinking poison.

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  • The group's steering committee has already organized a successful heritage walk around Kinneil Estate at Easter as well as Tuesday's event.

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  • At 12.30pm, after the Easter Bonnet Parade, the High Bailiff will unveil a large piece of dressed stonework at the Heritage Center.

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  • One less concerned with the sell would have dispensed with a largely superfluous chapter on Easter 1916.

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  • Lads were practicing for one of the coveted international titles, the Bells Beach Surfing Classic, held over easter.

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  • Quins scored 11 tries in total, with Nick Easter claiming two second half touchdowns.

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  • An armed uprising in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916 was put down by the British.

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  • The local vicar is ferried by helicopter to conduct Easter Sunday services in surrounding villages.

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  • In 1118 he was on his way to spend Easter at Jerusalem, when he received the news of the death of Baldwin I.; and when he arrived at Jerusalem, he was made king, chiefly by the influence of the patriarch Arnulf.

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  • Finally we must note that the Cisalpine now took the name of the Italian Republic, and that by a concordat with the pope, Bonaparte regulated its relations to the Holy See in a manner analogous to that adopted in the famous French concordat promulgated at Easter 1802 (see CONCORDAT).

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  • With the Easter vigil the eucharist was specially associated, and baptism with that of Pentecost (see Whitsunday).

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  • This reckoning of the year as beginning at Easter lingered in France till 1565, when, by an ordinance of Charles IX., the ist of January finally took its place.

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  • The burning of the paschal candle still forms part of the Easter ceremonial of the Roman Catholic Church (see Lights, Ceremonial).

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  • In the later years of its existence, at least, it met three times a year, at Easter, Whitsuntide and Christmas.

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  • His enemies accused him before a synod of French bishops (602) for keeping Easter according to the old British and now unorthodox way, and a more powerful conspiracy was organized against him at the court of Burgundy for boldly rebuking the crimes of King Theuderich II.

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  • On the Easter Hill stands the Royal Edinburgh asylum for the insane, which formerly occupied a site in Morningside, while the City infectious diseases hospital is situated at Colinton Mains.

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  • At Spitalfields crowds used to congregate on Easter Monday and Tuesday to hear the Spital sermons preached from the pulpit cross.

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  • After some delay, consequent on the scruples of the theological censor of Halle, who did not like to see miracles rejected, the book appeared (Easter, 1792).

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  • The ark kept at Axum is described as 2 feet high, covered with gold and gems. The liturgy was celebrated on it in the king's palace at Christmas, Epiphany, Easter and Feast of the Cross.

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  • It was from the first his desire to practise at the English bar, though in deference to his father's wishes he qualified as an advocate at Edinburgh, in 1754, but entered himself at the Inner Temple on the 8th of May 1753, so that he might keep the Easter and Trinity terms in that year.

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  • Communicants were to kneel, not to sit, a thing that had, of all others, been odious to John Knox; Easter was to be observed, also Christmas, contrary to earnest consciences; confirmation was introduced; the Communion might be administered to the dying in their houses; and baptism must be on the first Sunday after the child's birth.

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  • Amongst the festivals mentioned are the Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost.

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  • Epiphanius tells of Audaeus of Mesopotamia and his followers, Puritan sectaries in the 4th century, who were orthodox except for this belief and for Quartodecimanism (see Easter).

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  • At Easter, there are marzipan lambs filled with quince jam.

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  • Easter Re-opening Celebrations Easter bank Holiday Sunday and Monday (16th & 17th April) saw the reopening of the railroad.

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  • You'll find everything you need to plan for spring and Easter, including Language & Ski courses and A-level Revision courses.

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  • Rather too taken care of was one of Suffolk 's largest Easter sepulchers, up in the chancel.

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  • In England a simnel cake, with a baked almond topping, often graces the table during Easter.

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  • The flying hours total for April has been increased from that of previous months despite the Easter stand-down period.

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  • The Grafton Hunt steeple chases were held on Easter Monday.

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  • The group 's steering committee has already organized a successful heritage walk around Kinneil Estate at Easter as well as Tuesday 's event.

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  • Likely assume jurisdiction get suede futon cover military housing easter egg hunt.

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  • Industrial and suffragette action increased, while divisions in Ireland hardened, leading to the Easter Uprising and its bitter consequences.

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  • Shared swimming pool under construction - due Easter 06.

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  • Assessment and Examination For the first two years undergraduates sit tripos examinations at the end of the Easter Term.

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  • All that is the wonderful truth of the resurrection of Jesus on that first Easter Day.

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  • Raw vegan Chocolate Easter Eggs from Raw Living online shop - amazing what you can get online now !

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  • Christian preachers spewed hatred in their Easter sermons calling for vengeance for the death of Jesus.

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  • Gifts are typically given at the baby's birth, subsequent birthdays, and even special holidays, like Christmas or even Easter.

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  • Other popular holidays for retailer to promote sales are Memorial Day, Labor Day and Easter.

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  • The mall is closed on Easter; however, some store may be open from Noon to 6 p.m. Check the main Web site for specific dates and times as they may change year from year.

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  • The outlet mall and all of its shops are closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and Easter.

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  • The mall is officially closed for Easter, though some stores may be open noon to 6 p.m. depending on if they are an anchor store or restaurant.

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  • Normal hours of operation are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Each year, this mall is closed on Easter (some stores are open from noon until 6 p.m.), Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

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  • You may have a traditional Easter egg hunt or Christmas Eve dinner to bring all members of the family to one place to mingle and celebrate.

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  • Asian style home decoration, often referred to as Oriental decor, is a term that encompasses the interior design of the Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and other Easter cultures.

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  • Ideas for Easter table decorations can be whimsical or elegant, depending on your personal style.

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  • Easter decorations have distinctive motifs like other holiday themes.

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  • Bunnies are a very popular motif for an Easter centerpiece.

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  • Add a wow factor to your Easter table with the unexpected.

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  • Place an Easter basket on its side with the Easter grass and eggs spilling out onto a bed of Spring flowers and greenery.

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  • You may want to add some Easter candy for an after dinner treat.

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  • Use green Easter basket grass to create a bed of grass for the figurines, place ceramic, wood or dyed Easter eggs about the grass.

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  • Easter egg trees are very popular ideas for Easter table decorations.

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  • Arteflorum makes a cute Easter egg tree that has green, white and yellow stylized decorated eggs.

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  • This centerpiece can be embellished with lilies and greenery or with the addition of other figurines such as Easter chicks.

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  • You may wish to add several small Easter baskets to carry the theme in a runner effect down the length of your table.

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  • You may wish to create your own stylized Easter egg tree.

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  • If you're hosting an Easter dinner, then you can take advantage of your dessert and create a wonderful centerpiece that can be eaten at the end of the meal.

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  • Decorate an Easter basket, drape colorful linen napkins inside and fill with home-baked cookies in the shape of chicks, bunnies, and Easter eggs.

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  • Next, add tulips and daisies or Easter lilies spaced among the grass.

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  • Use decorated or dyed Easter eggs and place within the arrangement as though ready for an Easter egg hunt.

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  • Use Easter basket grass and create a runner down the length of your table.

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  • Don't forget to add some decorated or dyed Easter eggs and candles for a very fluid and fun centerpiece.

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  • Use a variety of different colored Easter basket grasses and place a yellow patch, a green patch and a pink (or purple) patch spaced along the length of the table like a bird's nest.

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  • Colored Easter eggs can be placed inside the round grass nests.

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  • Another idea would be to use a painted pastel Easter egg garland as a runner for your table, add a few pastel column candles.

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  • Use green Easter basket grass and make a small bird's nest, add a small twig and several candy eggs.

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  • All it takes is a little imagination and a touch of creativity, and you can create a captivating Easter dinner table setting.

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  • Navigating the website will also show you songs about Christmas, Easter, patriotism and more.

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  • Preparing special Easter brunch recipes is an excellent way to celebrate the spring holiday.

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  • Any of these recipes would be a wonderful complement to a complete, satisfying Easter brunch.

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  • Homemade granola is a healthy, interesting addition to any Easter brunch.

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  • Easter is a time to celebrate the return of spring and the warmer weather and, with Easter cake recipes, you can turn it into a sweet celebration.

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  • While there are traditional cakes for just about every holiday, there seems to be no specific cake that represents Easter.

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  • When I make a cake to serve with Easter dinner, I usually make a carrot cake because what other kind of cake would the Easter bunny want?

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  • Once your figures and flowers have been made, just let them air dry and then use them to decorate your Easter cake.

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  • If you use a great Easter cupcakes recipe to close out your holiday dinner, you'll finish with something memorable and sweet that both kids and adults will enjoy.

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  • Try any of these three Easter cupcakes recipes for fluffy and delicious cupcakes that you can top with your favorite frosting and decorate with an Easter theme.

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  • A carrot-cake cupcake is a natural choice for Easter.

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  • Easter is a springtime celebration and the foods served reflect the time of year, and some simple Easter recipe tips can help you prepare your table.

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  • Pastel colored eggs and egg shaped cookies are traditional treats for Easter.

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  • Using some of these Easter recipe tips, you can make your own cookie coloring.

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  • Since you have the food coloring out, here is an Easter recipe tip that will help you color some eggs.

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  • In Greece, they make traditional Easter bread that is braided, but you can also make it in small round loaves.

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  • With cupcakes, cookies, and bread filling your house with welcoming smells, you can use these Easter recipe tips to start the spring off right.

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  • Easter recipes run the gamut from spring-like desserts to delicious main dishes.

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  • This article provides Easer recipes for a wonderful meal that you can serve with pride this coming Easter.

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  • What follows are Easter recipes for a main dish, side dish, vegetable, and a desert.

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  • These Easter recipes will help you to prepare a delicious Easter meal for your family and guests.

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  • These recipes will make a terrific Easter dinner.

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  • This simple Easter meal will be sure to please your guests.

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  • Making Easter treats for kids is a yearly tradition that many families around the world celebrate and enjoy.

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  • If you're pressed for time, it may be a good idea to make a recipe you've done before rather than try a new one on Easter.

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  • Get your family involved in the cooking process for a fun way to spend time with them on Easter.

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  • Make regular cakes and treats suitable for Easter by adding special decorations, following Easter design templates, or creating your own designs.

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  • Try making any of these fun, special Easter treats for kids and adults.

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  • If your kids love melted chocolate or you need to find a way to use up the leftover chocolate bunnies and eggs from Easter, this is a great recipe to try.

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  • Incorporating Italian Easter dessert recipes into your holiday meal brings a sweet finish to your Easter dinner.

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  • There are a number of Italian Easter dessert recipes that you can make that will leave your guests sweetly satisfied this Easter.

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  • Below are just a few traditional Italian Easter dessert recipes that you can share with your family and guests.

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  • The Colomba di Pasqua – or Easter Dove – is a sweet Italian Easter bread that is a traditional finish to an Italian Easter meal.

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  • The process requires a long period of rising and should be started the day prior to Easter.

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  • This traditional Italian recipe can be served with the Easter Dove bread or on its own as a delicious Easter dessert recipe.

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  • Activity Village has printable alphabets in all sorts of themes, from Easter to Quidditch.

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  • Scrapbook paper with large Easter eggs should definitely be on your "need to have" list next time you are creating holiday layouts.

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  • Not only is the paper a representation of the typical fun you have during the Easter season, but it can add pop to your album with the beautiful Easter egg colors.

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  • There is a seemingly endless array of colors, styles, and designs when it comes to Easter egg papers.

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  • Whether you are searching for religious themed paper with bible quotes, or simply wishing to include Easter eggs on your spring layouts, you are sure to find a company offering the perfect design.

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  • This can be used for Easter layouts or any occasion that you need a tie dye pattern!

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  • Joyful Expressions takes hunting for Easter eggs to a new level by incorporating Christian themed sayings.

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  • We R Memory Keepers has several holiday themed collections, including Easter and Spring.

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  • Paper House Productions is known for their photograph-turned-scrapbook papers, and sells Easter collections that include baskets, flowers, jelly beans, and decorated eggs.

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  • Each year, the company typically offers a new Spring Collection and sometimes even specifically Easter themes.

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  • Karen Foster Designs offers not only Easter egg patterned paper, but also various Spring and Easter inspired embellishments that coordinate with their collection.

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  • The products are available in a variety of Easter themes.

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  • Use the site filter options to narrow your search to strictly Easter themed layouts.

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  • For a twist with specific Easter egg layouts, try using the paper in other ways.

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  • Once you've found the perfect scrapbook paper with large Easter eggs that you want to use, make sure you capture more than just the traditional egg hunt.

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  • Take your camera with you throughout the Easter season so you can include snapshots of the first shoots of spring daffodils, pretty Easter dresses, the cross at your church, or baby birds in their nests.

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  • When these photos become part of your Easter layouts as spring happenings, your layouts will be all the more special.

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  • Extra holiday-themed scrapbook pages and embellishments can be repurposed on pages featuring favorite Christmas and Easter recipes.

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  • Fortunately for those looking to eliminate the Easter time staple from their diets, there are a number of excellent egg substitutes available.

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  • If you're getting married on Easter, pairs of chocolate bunnies may be a delicous and adorable topper.

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  • Easter weddings should take advantage of pastels.

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  • Straw hats decorated with ribbon, lace and silk flowers and placed in the middle of the table are a great spring or Easter centerpiece.

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  • This is particularly true if you're getting married in a church and it's Easter or Christmas.

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  • Around Easter, lamb cake pans are available for purchase at craft stores.

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  • If you are getting married close to Easter Sunday, delicate sugar Easter eggs can also look beautiful on a cake.

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  • Every year, special events take place such as the annual Easter Surfing Festival, and an annual art festival has taken place since the early 1960s.

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  • For example, a destination wedding that's being held in Polynesia might feature small models of the Easter Island sculptures or a cake in the style of Mãori carvings.

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  • If you're looking for just the right cake to lend some festivity to your celebration, check out a few Easter cake designs.

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  • While you can use standard cake pans to achieve wonderfully creative Easter Cakes, there are also numerous novelty cake pans that can give you a jumpstart for your designs, and most come with decorating directions.

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  • Here are just a few examples from hundreds of cake pans devoted to Easter themes.

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  • Either use an Easter bunny cake pan or carve a bunny figure out of a large sheet cake.

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  • Smooth the fondant out well, and then add colored buttercream decorations such as eyes, a neck ribbon and a fluffy tail to mimic the look of a traditional chocolate Easter bunny.

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  • Use various drop flower and leaf decorating tips to create a spring garden Easter egg theme.

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  • Use a round tip to write "Happy Easter" or some other holiday message on the cake.

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  • Cover the entire top of your cake, and then place robin's eggs, chocolate bunnies and other Easter candies on the grass to fill your basket.

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  • Alternatively, you might choose to pipe the cake with ribbons and roses, or even create Easter lilies using a lily nail.

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  • A bunny cake is a great choice for Easter or for the birthday of a child who loves animals, and it's an especially fun design to make.

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  • Make single serving desserts for everyone at your family gathering when you decorate cupcakes for Easter.

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  • You can also make a large decorated Easter bunny cake out of cupcakes.

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  • Arrange cupcakes on a large cake board to resemble the shape of an Easter bunny face.

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  • The bunny isn't the only animal associated with Easter.

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  • Receiving an Easter basket is a fun part of the day for kids of any age.

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  • Kids enjoy helping out in the kitchen, so let them help with this basket Easter design.

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  • Give kids assorted candies in the shape of Easter eggs, chocolate candy-coated minis and jellybeans.

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  • Even if you want to skip making an bunny cupcake, chick cupcake, or basket cupcake, you can still make plenty of cupcakes for an Easter celebration.

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  • Decorating cupcakes for an Easter celebration is something that anyone can do.

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  • During the holidays, use typical décor, like Christmas ornaments or Easter eggs, to the cake table.

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  • You can make tiny fondant rabbits for Easter, spindly spider cupcakes for Halloween, cornucopia pumpkin cupcakes for Thanksgiving, or holly cupcakes for the December holiday season.

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  • It's easy to find pictures of beautifully decorated Easter cakes with rabbit designs, but locating clear, step-by-step directions for an Easter bunny cake can be a bit of a challenge.

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  • The following directions for an Easter bunny cake are based on a standard, 9 inch by 13 inch rectangular sheet cake.

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  • A quick Internet search or browse through a book of Easter desserts will show you that there are dozens more designs for bunny cakes.

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  • Decorating an Easter bunny cake with marshmallows is a great holiday activity for kids that serves two purposes - it keeps them busy during the rainy spring days and you end up with a delicious dessert decorated for the Easter holiday.

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  • It is very simple to decorate an Easter bunny cake with marshmallows.

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  • If you or the kids make a mistake or want to adjust the spacing of the marshmallows, make sure it is done soon after completing the Easter bunny cake.

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  • Pick up a bag of pastel marshmallows and make mini Easter bunny face cakes.

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  • Finally, keep in mind that marshmallows can be used in Easter cupcake decorating ideas too.

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  • When the days finally begin to get warmer and the snippets of grass break through the frozen ground, it's time to start designing some winning Easter cupcake decorating ideas for spring.

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  • Easter egg cupcakes can be colorful and beautiful, making them fitting for something as simple as a children's birthday bash or as classy as a fancy springtime dinner party.

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  • To finish, stick a candy Easter egg into the middle of each cupcake.

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  • Cover frosted cupcakes with crumbled cocoa powder or chocolate sandwich cookies, and place a few jelly beans or candy Easter eggs onto the center of each cake.

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  • Baby chickens are a quintessential symbol of Easter, and luckily, they're quite easy to create on cupcakes.

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  • Give kids assorted candies in the shape of Easter eggs, chocolate candy-coated minis, and jellybeans.

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  • For more Easter cupcake decorating ideas, try checking a seasonal cookbook out from the library, paging through cake decorating books, or looking through online cake galleries with focused search results.

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  • Traditional Easter themes are always fun to create in cupcakes, but don't be afraid to make up your own designs or try something more creative and stylized as well.

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  • Actor Jason Wahler, 20, of MTV's Laguna Beach and The Hills, was arrested over Easter weekend in Seattle, Washington.

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  • For holiday gifts, whether for Easter, Christmas, or even Valentine's Day, Luna Belle Boutique has a wide selection, such as this monogrammed Santa dress.

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  • A classic dress appropriate for Easter or any summer outing features puffed short sleeves, a fitted bodice detailed with ribbons, ruching or some similar design element, and a poufy skirt that comes to about knee length.

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  • Whether for Easter or an afternoon party, toddler girls' spring dresses are as delightful to see on little girls as they are for the girls to wear.

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  • As the weather warms and special occasions such as Easter are being celebrated, girls spring dresses are a beautiful fashion statement.

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  • Even churches that are very casual during the rest of the year will host a legion of little girls all dolled up during the Easter season.

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  • Girls spring dresses are also popular outside of religious circles, being purchased for spring picnics, Easter egg hunts, weddings, outdoor parties and other special occasions that call for a dress that is ideal for warming weather.

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  • A dress with puffed sleeves, a petticoat, and finished off with ruffled socks, a hat and patented leather shoes were very common for every Sunday, and even more formal around the Easter season.

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  • The best time to purchase a springtime dress is the week or so before Easter.

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  • Likewise, a dress for Easter, communion, or even a bat mitzvah (for older girls), adds to the occasion and makes it more memorable.

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  • Girls spring dress coats can be chosen as a great addition to a new Easter outfit or simply a nice jacket to wear to school and on other outings.

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  • An even dressier option is the Katie and Co. piqué coat in pastel pink, which looks like it would be a perfect coat to cover your daughter's Easter dress or be worn on any other occasion during the spring months.

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  • Be it an Easter brunch or Fourth of July party, white pants add a touch of semi-formality to the occasion.

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  • While the site is geared toward wedding apparel for the littlest of attendants, they also offer many dresses that are perfect for Christmas parties and Easter gatherings.

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  • When Easter rolls around, parents are often left scrambling looking for suits for their little boys and Easter dresses for little girls, hoping that last year's choices will still fit.

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  • This year, try something new -- shop early for an Easter dress for your little princess so that you can be sure she'll look as prim and proper or as cute and fun as you like.

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  • As you shop for Easter dresses, there will be plenty to consider.

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  • Don't worry, however, if Easter is drawing near and you're still trying to figure out how to dress your daughter.

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  • When buying Easter dresses for little girls, you'll need only to consider the following.

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  • What will you be doing on Easter Sunday?

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  • Do you plan to have a get-together with family, go to church, or throw an Easter egg hunt for the neighborhood?

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  • There are Easter dresses for little girls that match all of these occasions, so you'll have no trouble finding an array of dresses from which to choose.

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  • However, if your daughter is going to be playing in the dirt with friends, or looking for hidden Easter treasures, chances are you won't want to buy her an expensive formal dress or Easter sundress with a matching straw hat.

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  • The Easter dress that you choose for your little girl might certainly fit your taste, but if you purchase her a cute little number with a hat and she's not in a "hat mood," guess what?

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  • You'll spend Easter Sunday trying to keep it on her head.

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  • Would she put up with a pair of Easter bloomers or an Easter hat?

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  • Of course, you must stay away from colors that she doesn't like at all costs - you don't want your little Easter Egg to be a miserable mess on Easter Sunday.

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  • You shouldn't pay an arm and a leg for an Easter dress that your daughter will wear twice if you're lucky.

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  • Although she might not act like it all the time, your little girl will look like an angel on Easter no matter what.

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  • Fight the urge to fret if the exact Easter dress that you want is sold out.

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  • No matter what you end up buying for Easter this year, your daughter will feel like a million dollars if you affirm how beautiful she looks in her dress on this special day.

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  • If you're considering buying boys' Easter suits this year, it's likely a foregone conclusion that your son will be wearing a coat and pair of trousers, which are sold in all colors and in nearly every store months before the holiday.

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  • While you may choose to go without one, try encouraging him to look like a "big boy" for Easter and give one a go.

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  • The boy's Easter suit is a ubiquitous presence in shopping centers and department stores around Easter time.

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  • Ask your son what color of suit he wants to wear for Easter, and give him some options to consider.

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  • In this day and age, the same accessories available to an adult are sold in miniature to accompany boys' suits for Easter.

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  • While some little boys don't like dressing up, others will greatly enjoy wearing a fun and fashionable suit for Easter.

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  • Make the experience enjoyable for your son and let him have a bit of say in deciding what to wear so Easter can be enjoyable for everyone involved.

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  • Every year around Easter, toddler girls Easter dresses sell like hotcakes.

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  • The holidays are wonderful for parents, who are able to deck out their young girl with a cute and classy Easter outfit for church services.

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  • Because the toddler years are so brief, a little girl's Easter dress provides an excellent opportunity for taking photos, a moment to remember and share in the future.

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  • With the advent of online commerce, finding perfect toddler girls Easter dresses is a cinch, and you have a much wider variety to choose from.

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  • Instead of going to the store and taking what you can get, check out some of these fantastic websites that sell beautiful Easter dresses for toddlers at incredible prices.

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  • In addition to selling dresses for other special occasions such as weddings and Christmas, Sophia Style sells a collection of fashionable toddler girls Easter dresses at great prices.

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  • Some of the dresses on the website are a bit more "formal" and are designed for Easter services at churches, while others will allow your toddler the freedom to run around for an Easter egg hunt or play with her little friends!

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  • Sophia Style also boasts a large collection of spring dresses which, while not strictly for the Easter holiday, will match any occasion during the season.

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  • Another wonderful site for the toddler of fashionable parents, In Fashion Kids has a good selection of Easter dresses in all toddler shapes, sizes, and appropriate colors.

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  • The website includes a pretty sunflower dress with a matching hat, a pastel yellow cardigan dress for cooler weather, and a polka dots-and-daisies number which also comes with a traditional Easter white straw hat.

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  • In Fashion Kids offers plenty of pictures that can be enlarged so that you can inspect every detail of the Easter dress you select for your toddler.

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  • This Easter, make sure that your child is the Best Dressed Child.

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  • Offerings from BDC include the popular seersucker Easter variety, complete with pink checkered trim and bloomers.

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  • A classic yellow Easter dress with puffy sleeves is included here as well, with smocked white ducklings trailing the center of it.

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  • For the fashionable and price-conscious shopper, the Easter dresses at Bizrate allow you to select styles and compare prices on them to ensure that you're getting the best possible deal.

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  • Not quite sure what to get your toddler for Easter this year?

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  • Look at online photos of Easter dresses to get an idea of what you'd like to see your daughter wearing on Easter Sunday.

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  • From casual to fashionable to modern, Easter dresses can be accented with bows and ribbons to make your daughter look beautiful this Easter, or can be more simple and plain to ensure they will never go out of style.

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  • Discount girls' Easter dresses can be a great holiday purchase.

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  • However, you can ensure your daughter looks great without spending a fortune by finding great discount girls' Easter dresses.

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  • Before heading out to department stores to look for discount girls' Easter dresses, visit these websites to see if you can find a fashion that fits your style and budget.

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  • At iNfASHIONkIDS, you can find special occasion dresses for all occasions from Christmas to birthdays to Easter.

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  • For instance, in the Easter category, you will find seven pages full of girl's Eater dresses for very reasonable prices.

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  • Girls Dress Line offers Easter dresses for girls at reasonable prices, generally ranging between $50 and $80.

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  • Remember that when buying your Easter dress, price is only one factor to consider.

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  • Lil Dimples also has a nice selection of Easter dresses, flower girl ensembles and tuxedos and suits for boys.

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  • The company creates dresses for special occasions such as Christmas and Easter, but also has a very wide selection of 'any occasion' fancy girls' dresses.

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  • Tiny Tot Dress Shop has a great selection of girls' dresses, ranging from Easter and Christmas to flower girl dresses and everyday wear.

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  • Whether specifically for Easter or any dressy occasion in spring, you can always find an array of colorful dresses to suit any little girl.

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  • Pairing a lacy Easter dress with footless tights can work, but most often it will not because the shoes selected to go with the dress don't lend themselves to footless tights (think patent leather Mary Janes).

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  • Buying girls' wholesale party dresses was the goal of many poorer people in cities who needed to get a good dress for their daughters that would work as well for First Communion, Easter or other religious or secular dressy occasions.

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  • The most common events that require a more extravagant toddler dress are Christmas, Easter, weddings and birthday parties.

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  • Full-length special occasion dresses for girls are rarer, but a tea-length dress can be very common for a variety of occasions, including Easter, first communion, Christmas and evening weddings.

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  • Easter - While it is traditional for a boy to wear a tie to church on Easter Sunday, you'll also find a nice selection of Easter-specific ties in the spring.

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  • These ties might feature bunnies, jelly beans or Easter eggs.

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  • You will have an easier time finding a lilac-purple dress shirt around Easter than you will during the fall.

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  • Holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter and St. Patrick's Day are all good reasons for a kid to don something dressier.

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  • Holiday wear for Easter is typically dressy for boys and for girls.

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  • Easter dresses for toddler girls often feature lots of lace.

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  • In addition, an Easter bonnet or pretty straw hat can complement almost any dress.

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  • For boys, shortalls in linen or a cotton/polyester blend paired with a dressy shirt that features a round collar offers an elegant look that is perfect for an Easter morning.

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  • Styles for younger girls typically have nothing to do with prom season, but you will see more formal dresses on the racks during party seasons such as Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter.

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  • Shopping for special occasion clothing, like toddler Easter dresses, is one of the rewards of having a little girl.

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  • Buying dresses and other outfits right after a holiday, like Easter or Christmas, could save you as much as 75 percent off retail.

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  • If you must buy in-season, shopper's clubs, exclusive online coupons, and loyalty cards are ways to avoid paying full retail for toddler Easter dresses.

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  • It's always fun to dress a baby for her first holiday, and the selection of infant Easter dresses you can buy is delightful.

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  • When it comes to dresses for Easter, especially for children, the classics tend to be the most popular.

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  • On an active day like Easter, you may want to be sure your baby is wearing something that lets her wave her arms with ease.

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  • Nearly any store that sells good children's wear will have at least a small selection of infant Easter dresses.

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  • You can shop via the infant section or the Easter section.

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  • These are impractical dresses, but items like the Garden Fairy dress can be fun for Easter because your baby will look just like a little flower.

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  • If you just want something simple that will let your baby participate in an Easter egg hunt with ease and can take dirt and grass stains, try B Swanky.

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  • They have two Easter dresses, both simple, loose sundresses with ribbons at the shoulders.

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  • One is in a blue gingham with a yellow chick on the front, the other is a green gingham and features the Easter bunny.

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  • Easter outfits for boys can show off your little man's dapper side.

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  • As your child hunts for Easter eggs or walks into church on Easter Sunday, he'll look his absolute best in and Easter ensemble you've chosen specifically for him.

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  • How dressy you decide to make your son's Easter outfit will depend upon where he is going to be wearing the clothes.

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  • Utilize the colors of Easter to make this outfit appropriate for church attendance or a party.

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  • Tan and white suites create a nice fashion statement for the Easter holiday.

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  • Casual Easter outfits can be more comfortable for family gatherings and Easter egg hunts.

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  • To make the look have an Easter edge, add a pastel bow tie or shirt.

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  • When you think of accessories for Easter, items for girls might be what comes to mind first.

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  • When deciding how dressy you want your son's Easter outfit to be, keep in mind the expense of the clothes.

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  • Your boy's Easter outfit will make him look fresh as spring and impress your family and friends.

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  • It's always a delight to shop for children's Easter dresses.

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  • For centuries, Easter marked a time to get new clothes.

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  • It was often thought that someone who didn't have something new for Easter would have bad luck for the year.

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  • Traditional Easter clothes for boys and girls are white or pastel and often in light fabric such as linen, fine cotton or organdy.

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  • Easter clothes should be very fine and even include a bonnet as exemplified by the famous Easter Parade and the film that's named for it.

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  • Their Easter hat was the new hat they would wear throughout the summer.

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  • It would be bedecked with flowers or other pretty decorations for Easter.

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  • An Easter dress often features ruffles and flowers, giving it even more of a spring-like appearance.

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  • While children's Easter dresses are not generally sold with accessories anymore - in addition to a hat, girls were expected to wear white gloves - you can certainly add whatever you like.

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  • Easter dresses can be seen in shops as early as January, but most parents wait till nearer the holiday to choose something.

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  • But you can also find classic smocked clothes perfect for children's Easter dresses at specialty sites such as Carousel Wear.

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  • Many of the clothes available in organic fabrics do not lend themselves to anyone's idea of a classic children's Easter dress, although they are expanding all the time.

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  • Don't forget too that everything old is new again, meaning that a vintage Easter dress can be even more beautiful than anything you might find in a new shop.

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  • White or pink sailor dresses can also make nice Easter dresses.

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  • When Easter dresses go on clearance, you may want to purchase one for an upcoming birthday party or wedding.

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  • Special occasion items such as flower girl dresses, christening gowns and Easter dresses are popular for mothers, grandmothers and other relatives to make for children in the family.

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  • Boys' summer clothing begins to appear in stores just after Easter.

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  • N. ornatus is now grown by the million for Easter decoration.

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  • This plant flowers so early as to have earned the name of Easter Daisy with the colonists.

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  • Charms that feature hearts, for instance, may well be sold off cheaply after Valentine's day to make space for Easter charms, however a charm featuring a heart will look lovely throughout the whole year.

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  • This might include different saints, representations of Christian figures, charms that signify Christian holidays such as Easter and Christmas, Christian icons or anything else that is significant to a person with Christian beliefs.

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  • Suitable charms include representations of the baby Jesus or the nativity scene for Christmas and the cross for Easter.

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  • If you enjoy wearing holiday jewelry, consider beaded Easter jewelry.

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  • You can find Easter jewelry that fits your personality.

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  • Easter jewelry adds holiday spirit to your wardrobe.

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  • You can add an elegant beaded Easter egg pin to your lapel for a church outing.

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  • Or you may want a cute Easter bunny necklace to wear with jeans.

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  • A casual or dressy jewelry selection can remind you of the holiday during the weeks before Easter.

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  • Wearing a religious Easter jewelry item such as a beaded cross can serve as a prayer aid.

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  • At the very least, the jewelry can remind you of the meaning of Easter during Lent.

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  • Or you can wear a special piece of jewelry on Easter day in celebration.

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  • Easter jewelry also makes a thoughtful gift for a relative or friend.

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