Easter is the most important holiday in Greece, with week-long celebrations organized by the Greek Orthodox Church. Traditions include baking tsourki bread and dyeing eggs red on Holy Thursday to symbolize victory over death. The Easter celebrations and date usually differ from Western Easter, falling one to five weeks later, though in 2014 Greek Orthodox Easter falls on the same day as Western Easter, on April 20th.

2. • Easter in Greece is
the biggest holiday
of the year and is
even more
important than
Christmas,with
week-long
celebrations and
traditions.

3. • The Greek
Orthodox Church
plays a large role in
the Greek Easter
‘Paska’ or ‘pascha’
celebrations.

4. • Greek Orthodox Easter
usually falls one to five
weeks after the western
(Protestant,Catholic)East
er, while approximately
once ever four years it
falls on the same date.

5. • In 2014 Greek
Orthodox Easter
usually falls on Sunday
April 20th, the same
day as western Easter.

6. • Holy (or Great) Thursday
• Easter preparations begin on Holy .Thursday
when the traditional Easter bread,tsourki,is
baked, and eggs are dyed red (red is the color of
life as weel a representation of the blood of
Christ).

7. • From ancient times, the egg has been a symbol
of the renewal of life, and the message of the
red eggs is victory over death.In times gone
by,supersitions grew into customs thst included
placing the first-dyed red egg at the home’s
iconostasis (place where icons are displayed)to
ward off evil,and marking the heads and backs
of small lambs with the red dye to protect
them.

8. • Holy Thursday evening,
church services include a
symbolic representation of
the crucifixion,and the
period of mourning begins.
In many villages –and in
cities as well- women will
sit in church throughout the
night, in traditional
mourning

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