Show TRACED 1 TO PAGAN CEREMONY anniversary of easter and worship of goddess of spring A have been mingled it was through the efforts of the priests and teachers of the early christian church that the easter sea son was shorn of its pagan ceremonies tad and converted into a christian anniversary ver sary these priests f finding it impossible va kalble to induce the german and saxon tribes alonz whom they labored ta to renounce their worship of the goddess of spring variously known ea as gotera and faux faily managed to give the ceremonies another turn proclaiming that the season se celebrated the rising of christ from the dead gradually as aa the new re gained ground the old heathen died out the goddess was no longer revered but her namo was retained to what had bad nw now become the festival of the resurrection for the first three centuries of the christian era easter was celebrated on the same day as the passover but after much dissatisfaction had been expressed at coincidence of the two to feasts the council of nice demised in A D the present mode of determining the date of ieter tills this as every one knows pr provides rides that it shall fall on the first sunday after the full moon which oc cura cum upon or next after starch march 21 the equinox exchange |