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In this Thursday, April 13, 2017, picture artisan Nicu Poenariu displays for a photograph an Easter egg on sale at a fair in Bucharest, Romania. Ahead of Easter, celebrated by both Orthodox and Catholic believers on April 16 processions of priests clad in golden robes carrying foliage on Palm Sunday in a recreation of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem, mixed with more commercial flavored celebrations like an Easter fair outside the giant palace built by late Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu where entertainers strutted around wearing giant rabbit heads.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the holiday

Brent Landau