The Most important holiday of Christians which celebrates Lord Christ’s resurrection from the dead is Easter. The Festival of Easter Sunday is known as Movable Fest because it doesn’t lie on a fixed date every year, as most of the holidays. Instead of this west Christians Churches celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after vernal equinox on 21st March following full moon night. Therefore Easter is celebrated in between 22nd March to 25th April every year.  Some Orthodox Christians also use Julian calendar to calculate the date to celebrate Easter. 

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Typically it will be celebrated after one or two weeks after the Western Churches which follows Gregorian Calendar. The Actual Origins of the religious festival Easter Sunday name are unknown. Some of the sources say the word Easter is derived from the word Eostre that is a Teutonic Goddess of Spring and Fertility. Many other sources also say Easter to be Latin term hebdomada alba or a white week, that is an ancient reference to the Easter Week and people who were baptized during the time also wear white clothes. Through the translation bug in the term Eostre, later it finds as Esostarum in Old high German which now becomes Easter in English.  Here on this post, we bring Happy Easter Clipart Pictures for all of you that helps you to wish your friends and family a happy Easter in a different style.

Easter is also Known as Pascua in Spanish and Paques in French. These words are obtained from the Greek and Latin words Pascha & Pasch for Passover. When Jesus went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover, A Jewish feast commemorating the ancient Israelites exodus through slavery in Egypt after that crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ occurred. Then the Pasha comes to mean as Easter.  To add some twist in your Easter Celebration share your Easter wishes in your own style and check out the below given Happy Easter Pictures and pick a good one to share with your friends and relatives.

Easter is a complete season of Christian Church year that was observed in a single day. The Forty Day Period that leading to Easter Sunday is called Lent and that is a time of Penance and reflection. Lent reflects the 40 days period that Jesus suffers alone in the wilderness . 

 It is a time before starting of Jesus Ministry in which the Christians believes that he survived through several temptations by the Devil.  The day before the lent is known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras which is the last hurrah of fun & food before the fasts started. The Week precedes the Easter Sunday is known as a Holy week and it also has Maundy Thursday which commemorates as Christ’s last supper with disciples. 

Now the Good Friday comes which honours as the crucifixion of Jesus and Holy Saturday which honours transition between crucifixion & resurrection. In Short, the Fifty days period which follows Easter is called as Eastertide and it also includes the celebration of Jesus ascension into heaven. So on this auspicious occasion of Easter, we came up with a great stuff of Happy Easter Bunny Pictures that is best and unique all for you to share through various social sites.