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Is Easter Pagan?

By Filings on Wed, 04/13/22
Church History
Venerable Bede
Easter
Church and Biblical History

“…eighth-century English monk The Venerable Bede proposed that the word Easter comes from the name of a pagan goddess…. Modern pagans latched onto this idea, and further associated Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility, with Ostara, a Germanic goddess of spring. There are multiple problems with this theory” - Breakpoint

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