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Easter
Ana Moreira, Ana Martins, Carla Costa
ORIGIN AND MEANING OF EASTERAfter Carnival, Christians don’t eat meat on Fridays; On Sunday before Easter, children and young people take
an olive brunch to the mess to be blessed by the priest and then offered to their godmother.
People usually dress new clothes to go to the mess on Easter Sunday.
On Holy Friday, in many villages and small towns (Braga), people take part in a procession and go to the
mess in the evening.
ORIGIN AND MEANING OF EASTER - continuation
On Easter Sunday, church bells wake up people to announce Jesus
ressurrection, People go to the mess and then go
back home to wait for the priest. Everybody receive the priest at
home so that the whole family and the house itself could be blessed
with holy water. All people kiss the holy cross.
ORIGIN AND MEANING OF EASTER - continuation
The priest visit at home
Many of these traditions are still alive, specially in villages and small towns. Today, as fewer
people receive the priest at home, those who want their houses to be blessed put flowers on
the floor in front of them so that the priest knows where to take the holy cross.
All streets are beautifully decorated with flowers on the floor and the richer people
put at the windows rich embroidery coverlets.
ORIGIN AND MEANING OF EASTER - continuation
In the city In the village
The houses are very well cleaned; people put a very nice table-cloth on a
table. Thus, all the fruit would be blessed.
Families offer a “Congrua” (money) given for the church as a gift.)
ORIGIN AND MEANING OF EASTER - continuation
Gastronomy
• The typical ‘FOLAR’- in two versions: sweet and with brown boiled eggs on the top; and made of salty smoked ham used to be offered to the priest and his fellows and, later, eaten by the whole family at lunch
.People eat roast meat, specially lamb, with rice and potatoes and the ‘folar’. Godmothers used
to give a gift to their god children (money or new clothes or sweet almonds).
Gastronomy
Folar
.People eat roast meat, specially lamb, with rice
and potatoes and the ‘folar’.
Gastronomy
Typical tradition
• Godmothers used to give a gift to their god children (money or new clothes or sweet almonds).
The eggs guard itself the image of a new life, so were adopted as a symbol of renewal. They used to be
offered as gifts in many civilizations. In ancient Egypt and Persia, for example, were painted in
shades of spring. In Catholic Europe of the eighteenth century, eggs lap laughed became blessed by Christians
and offered to the faithful. This tradition is recent (dates back to the last century- related to
consumerism)
EASTER SYMBOLS