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Show Meaning of the Term "Easter." The Venerable Bede is the most ancient an-cient and reliable authority on the meaning of the English term Earter, and its application to the feast of the Resurrection. According to this authority au-thority the word originally relates to Eostre, a Teutonic goddess of the rising light and spring, which deity is however how-ever otherwise unknown. The Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon is "Eastron," the old High German, Ger-man, Ostra, Ostrara, and the German Osteru. April among these nationalities national-ities was called in ancient days "Easter Monadth," |