Easter Saturday

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In Christianity, Easter Saturday is the Saturday of the Easter octave and thus the day before White Sunday , one week after Easter . The earliest possible date is March 28th, the latest May 1st.

Easter Saturday is also sometimes incorrectly referred to as "Easter Saturday". This usage of language differs from the church tradition.

Web links

Wiktionary: Easter Saturday  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Simon Thaddäus Hemmerle u. a .: Christian Catholic popular liturgy. Beck, Nördlingen 1840, Appendix, p. 27.
  2. The most important answers about Holy Week . In: rp-online.de , March 21, 2016. Accessed April 15, 2017.