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Festivals
An event, usually staged by a local community, which usually focusses on and celebrates a unique aspect, custom or tradition of that community.
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feast of asses
Festivals; Easter
The celebration of the "Festum Asinorum" in medieval and ecclesiastical circles was a pastime in which all, from the dignitaries in the upper stalls of the sanctuary to the ...
easter bonnet
Festivals; Easter
Refers to the old tradition of wearing new clothes for Easter, which represents the new life offered through the death and resurrection of Jesus. Women often bought new and ...
easter bunny
Festivals; Easter
An Easter symbol that has its origins in Alsace and southwestern Germany in the 1600s, consisting of a rabbit that brings baskets filled with coloured eggs, chocolate and toys to ...
paschal candle
Festivals; Easter
Used to describe a large, white candle used in Western forms of Christianity (e.g. Roman Catholic and Anglican). A new Paschal candle is blessed and lit every year at Easter, and ...
Maundy Thursday
Festivals; Easter
The Christian feast that falls on the Thursday before Easter. The term is a corruption of the Latin phrase Novum Mandatum (the New Commandment) given by Christ at the last supper ...
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