The tradition of celebrating Easter as the day of the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ goes back centuries and has different approaches to determining the date of this holiday.
The origins of the tradition of Easter
A modern person in a multiconfessional society notes that even the most important Christian holiday Easter is celebrated on different days by Orthodox and Catholics. Differences can range from one week to one and a half months, although there are coincidences.
Historically, Christian Easter is associated with Jewish Passover, the celebration date of which is fixed according to the lunar-solar calendar. This is the day when the Easter lamb should be slaughtered in eternal memory of the miraculous deliverance of the Israeli people from Egyptian slavery, and actually from death. According to the Bible, this is the evening before the full moon of the first spring month (Leviticus 23: 5, 6).
According to the Christian doctrine, Jesus Christ was crucified on the day of the Jewish Passover, which fell on Friday. And the miraculous resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ took place on Sunday, i.e. two days later.
Until the 4th century, Christians had many traditions of the date of the celebration of Easter. Easter was celebrated on the same day as the Jews, and the Sunday after the Jewish Easter, and according to some traditions, due to certain astronomical calculations from the early Jewish Easter to the vernal equinox, Easter was celebrated on Sunday after the full moon of the second month of spring.
