On the day of Easter, the most beautiful and solemn services in years are held in churches and temples - this fact is noted by both true Christians and people who are far from visiting religious places. The most important role in the church service at Easter is assigned to the Holy Fire. On the eve of the holiday, the sacred flame is lit in Jerusalem - the Temple of the Resurrection of Christ.
People paint eggs for Easter, but few people know where this tradition came from. The Easter egg itself - painted - symbolizes the Holy Sepulcher. That is, although the egg in the shell looks lifeless from the outside, life is preserved inside, which can come out of it at any moment. However, there are many legends about this - one of them says that the mother entertained the baby Jesus Christ with colored eggs. It is curious: the largest Easter egg was “carved” out of ice in our country - it weighed nearly 900 kg and reached a height of 2.3 meters.
Many signs and customs, both serious and not so, have been associated with the celebration of Easter throughout the ages. The thieves believed that if on this day they contrive and steal something from the parishioners during the service, then the whole year will be lucky in the affairs of thieves and criminals. And in order, for example, to successfully marry, a young girl or woman should have come to the Easter service in the church before anyone else - in this case, a happy family life was promised with a worthy companion. Being late meant that the husband would be grumpy and unlucky in every way.
And the last fact for today
The Holy Sepulcher also means baked Easter, and the symbol of the domes of temples and churches is Easter cake. At the same time, the inhabitants of Rus' treated each other with Easter cakes back in pagan times - they were baked in order to appease the heavens and bring them as a gift to the gods of spring and fertility. Did you know that the largest Easter was baked in 2011 in the small village of Yalta, which is located on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov - the confection weighed about 2 tons, its height was 2.4 meters.
Hope you learned a lot Happy Easter
Your Lady Anna