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Article: Don't worry, it'll soon be Easter!
- Article from:
- Northants Evening Telegraph (Kettering, England)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2008
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Easter eggs are already being spotted on shop shelves across north Northamptonshire in the year that Easter will fall at one of the earliest possible dates. Evening Telegraph reporter Becky Inman looks into what this means for churches, businesses and schools.
Easter Sunday will take place on March 23 this year, the earliest it has been since 1913.
The religious festival is known in the Christian calendar as a moveable feast, which means it has no fixed date, unlike Christmas.
Its date is traditionally set by a system known as Computus, which takes into account the dates of the full moon and the spring equinox. This system means Easter can be as ...