The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-27
TODAY IN HISTORY
Easter Sunday.
WHAT HAPPENED MARCH 27,

Easter. the anniversary Of our Lords
resurrection. Is one OF the three great
other two being Christmas and whitsun-
tide, ii has been celebrated as the
queen OF festivals by Christian people
from the earliest period of Christianity
down TO the present time
In the primitive times it was usual
Tor Christians 10 salute each other In
the morning OF this day by exclaim-
person saluted replied, "CbrIst is risen,
indeed or else. "and hath appeared INTO
Simon"-a custom still retained In the
Greek church
Our own name. Easter, is supposed
TO nave been derived from "Eostre," the
name OF Saxon deity. whose feast
was celebrated every year In the spring,
about the same time as the Christian
festVal-the name being retained when
the character OF the feast was changed,
or as others suppose, from Oster, which
signifies rising.
The rule given at the beginning Of
the prayer book to find Easter is this.
Easter day is always the first Sunday
after the full moon, which happens upon
or next after the 21st day of March:
and If the full moon happens upon a
sunday, Easter day is the Sunday aft
established this ruling for the day,
Nice in 325
The most characteristic Easter rite,
"Iiu VIC Ilpsl widely 0lllcrenl, is inc use
OF Pasch eggs. They are usually stained
various colors with dyewoods, or
herbs. There can be little doubt that
the use OF cggs at this season was orig
nature-the springing forth OF life in
spring: The, practice is not confined to
Christians-the Jews used eggs In the
| fast of the passover, and we are told
that the Persians, when they kept the
| festival of the solar new year In March
mutually presented each other with col
ored eggs. From the Christian point Of
view this feast OF eggs" is usually con-
sidercd as emblematic OF the resurrec-
tion and of future NE.
On Easter day depends all the nova
| BILE feasts and fasts throughout the
year, The nine Sundays before and the
eight following after are all dependent
| upon IL, and form. as IL were, n body
guard to this queen OF festivals. The
| nine preceding are the six Sundays in
| Lent. Qulnquagesima- SeXagesima and
Septuasesima; the eight following are the
FIVE Sundays. after Easter, the Sunday
after Ascension day, Whit Sunday and
Trinity Sunday,
For the same reason that eggs are
used on Easter Sunday as emblematlc
OF the new life. so are flowers used pro-
tusely to decorate the church and the
home. The Easter lily, on account of its
purity and great plenty at this period,
Is the dominating flower.
church festivals, the day is celebrated
| with elaborate ceremonials. The pope
| officiatcs. and he does so with every
imposing accessory that can be devised.
| The day is ushered in with the firing OF
cannons from the Castle of ST Angelo.
| and early in the morning carriages with
ladies' and gentlemen begin to pour
silica is richly decorated. The pope Is
| borne into the church from the Vatican
| under circumstances OF the utmost splen-
dor He wears his tiara; and beside him
are borne the "dabelli." or large fans
composed OF ostrich feathers. Over him
Is carried a silk canopy richly fringed.
| ried to the central balcony. where ris-
| ing from his chair of state, he pronounces
| a benediction. On the evening OF Easter
| Sunday the dome and other extreme parts
OF st. Peters are beautifully Illuminated
| with lamps.
On March 27, 1913. Florida was discov-