Easter is a time of springtime festivals since long ago. It is one of the most significant Christian festivals commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. Easter is at the end of the Lenten season, which covers a forty-day period that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends with Easter Sunday. On Passion Sunday Slovaks practice a custom of the banishment of winter symbolised by a straw figure known as Morena. The Lenten season is a period of preparation for the high festival of the church year and ends with Holy Week. Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper, Friday...
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