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...Easter must closely follow a full moon in order to light the way for pilgrims' travel to the festivals. The Council arbitrarily fixed the 14th day of the Jewish "paschal [Passover] month" (in the Jewish calendar, the lunar month when the full moon occurs after the equinox) as the day of the full moon, although the actual full moon is usually one or two days earlier...
...Easter must follow the Jewish Passover (which always falls on the 14th day of the paschal month) to avoid conflict between the two holy days...
...each 14th of Nisan for 33 centuries, millions of Jews throughout the world retired to their homes to partake in the Passover ceremonies symbolized by eating bitter herbs and unleavened bread, by the presence on the table of a lamb's roasted shank bone in memory of the paschal lambs whose blood had saved their fathers when the Lord smote Egypt. Unmindful were they of those Jews who 19 centuries ago had abandoned their faith to worship Jesus, whose descendants for centuries had at the time of Passover commemorated the Paschal Lamb Whose blood had saved the world...
...this near two weeks out of our monthly reckoning. Now Easter Day is to have the full moon resplendent no more in her sky. . . . It is pretty bad. We're going to stop being lunatics after all. The moon is to be evicted from her last retreat, the Paschal Date. For my part, if they standardize Easter for the sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes through glittery foliage and salute the orb. . . . A standardized calendar will do away with our last...
Married. Carolyn McDonald Walters Bronson Burgess Chevallier Garden White Luigi Hatfield Willis Paschal, 57, Louisiana's most-wed woman (TIME, May 18, 1931); and Robert McManus, 50, wholesale fish dealer; in Columbus, La. Widowed three times, divorced eight times, mother of 16, the bride uses the name of Hatfield, her ninth...