This is considered the most important and joyous festival – the "Feast of Feasts" – in the Eastern Orthodox Church ... Red Eggs: Eggs, ancient symbols of new life, are dyed a deep red.

Also in the eastern Orthodox Church ... As in the western Church, eggs are a symbol of Easter and of new life. At Easter, eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Jesus that was shed on ...

But it's not always the same day. Typically, the Catholic and Protestant churches dominant in the U.S. mark Easter days or even months ahead of Eastern Orthodox Christians, whose Easter is also ...