Holidays+Similar+to+Passover

Easter is a holiday that is widely associated with Passover. Easter is the most important holiday, celebrating and commemorating the death and resurrection of Christ and the beginning of the Church. Easter created and defined religious identity. This is not so different from Passover, the holiday recalling and reinterpreting the Exodus experience. According to the synoptic Gospels, Jesus’ last meal was the ritual Passover meal seder. For centuries, the two holidays related to and competed with each other, and Easter was often a precarious time for Jews. Christians will often dedicate certain traditions to the days they pertain to (when Christ was resurrected, when Christ rises, etc..).

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