Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: malton@csri.toronto.edu (Andrew Malton) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Easter (was Re: Christmas) Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 89 17:17:14 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI Lines: 12 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu This discussion about words for Easter suffers from a lack of data. Polish is a counter-example: they call Easter `great night'. The Byzantine Catholics do so too, at least it was called that in a English-language Byzantine missal I saw once. We should ask about early Christian communities not missionized by the Romans. Coptic? Ethiopic? Whatever language the Nestorian church used in India? [Any idea what the derivation of "great night" is? Sounds like it might be a reference to the Easter vigil. --clh]