Eastermonth

It is pretended that it is a heathen institution, or copied from a heathen institution; which reflection is derived from the circumstance of there having been a goddess called by different writers Aoster, Eoster, Eostre, Oster, or Easter, whose feast was celebrated in the month of April, which was thence called Easter Month.

Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls.

April, the "Easter month" of the Saxon, the season of renewed life in the outside world, is, by some nations, reckoned as the beginning of the new year.

When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours.

On this Easter month we have for several years sent out to the friends of our Society a little booklet of real pictures, showing some of the many lines of our work among the poor.

However, we find nineteen [and five] nights from the time that Eastermonth comes, the cycle revolves eke to the day when eager with song fervent with words we worship, [...]

In the meantime, the two systems often produced an identical Easter – when a full moon did not occur in the gap between 21 and 24 March (which delayed the Easter month in the Insular reckoning by another lunar cycle), [...]