Origins of Christianity TV - Bernhard Langer - Annie Besant - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Most people already know that the timings of Easter and Christmas come from the pagan traditions. Origins of Christianity
To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Bernhard Langer
‘Easter’ is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. Annie Besant
’Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spanish Student I iii