Whether you celebrate it by the Gregorian Calendar, or by the Julian, Easter, or Pascha, is the holiest day of the liturgical calendar for Christians around the world. This is because, as we sing in celebration, Jesus Christ “conquered death by death”. He died in excruciating pain. And we mean that literally, because the term excruciating means from the cross and derives from the word crucifixion itself.
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