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What do eggs have to do with Easter?
How did a Christian holiday get scrambled up with colored eggs?
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The significance of Easter in Christianity
Overview of the Christian celebration of Easter.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Carlos Mora/Dreamstime.com

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Easter Vigil
A woman lights candles for an Orthodox Easter Vigil service in Kyiv, Ukraine.
© Aziz Karimov/SOPA Images—LightRocket/Getty Images
Filippino Lippi: Pietà
Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels) by...
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Samuel H. Kress Collection (accession no. 1952.5.86)
vespers
Benedictine monks singing vespers on Holy Saturday at St. Mary's Abbey in Morristown,...
John Stephen Dwyer

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The Easter Story
Explore the Biblical figures, theology, and observances of Easter and Holy Week....
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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