Catholic Easter

For the French, Easter is not just a religious holiday. It is not necessary to observe all Christian sacraments to touch these events. The French congratulate relatives, friends and acquaintances not so much with religious dates, but with something kind, spring and joyful.

In many European countries, a popular Easter character is a rabbit that brings Easter eggs. The explanation for this also goes deep into paganism. According to legend, the pagan goddess of spring Estra turned the bird into a hare, but he continued to lay eggs. Another explanation for this phenomenon is more down-to-earth – when children went to collect eggs from a chicken coop on Easter morning, they often found rabbits nearby.

Already a month before Easter, sales of chocolate eggs, chickens, roosters and rabbits begin in all stores in France. On Easter Day, early in the morning, parents hide chocolate eggs in the garden, and children, waking up, find them under the bushes, in flowers, in the grass; they put the found eggs in a basket and eat them at breakfast.