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Show Easter Sunday. The popular understanding of the determination of Easter I. that It lithe li-the first Sunday after the first full moon after tho vernal equinox. This, although Iho theory, niust be taken with modillcjitlou In actual practice, hecuuso ecclesiastical dictum nxn. tho vernal equinox Invariably on the 21st of March, though thia may nut be the astronomical fact; because the full moon la fixed at the 14th day and because the beginning of tho I'aschat moon 1. determined by the table ot epacta, which only approximate tha fact. Usually the astronomical and ecclesiastical calculatlona agree .uffl i ciontly (hat the day la the same, but I the contrary has happened. |