Easter Its History, Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Easter Its History, Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Of all the festivals of the Christian year, Easter is the most important and most joyful. From of old it has been known as "the happiest of days, " "the bright day, " "the Sunday of joy" and "the festival of festivals." The early fathers used to speak of it as "the feast of feasts, " "the queen of days, " "the desirable festival of our salvation." And Pope Leo I called it "the day alone great." The names Easter and Ostern, the English and German names for the feast of the resurrection, were once thought to be derived from Ostara (Eostre), an ancient teutonic goddess mentioned by the historian Bede in the seventh century. She was the personification of the Spring, of the rising sun, of all things new and fresh and full of hope. To her the month corresponding to our April, Eostur-monath, was supposed to be dedicated. This is all very romantic and beautiful, but it is not true. Recent research has shown that Ostara, the goddess of the vernal equinox, originated nowhere but in the brain of the venerable Bede, and that Eostur-monath was named for the old heathen feast of Eostur or Easter which was so-called because the Spring sun had its new birth in the east. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.