Lent: Facts

Facts on topics related to Lent

academic Anastasios Christodoulou was named 'Anastasios' ('Resurrection') by his parents as he was born on Easter Day?
Annie Armstrong, for whom the Southern Baptist Easter collection for domestic missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again?
the Pascha greeting is an Easter custom amongst Orthodox Christians?

15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms (pictured) to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
Bruce Barton, in his bestselling 1925 book, The Man Nobody Knows, portrayed Jesus as "the founder of modern business"?
Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16?
Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?
a sculpture of Jesus near Tiškevičiai Palace (pictured) in Palanga was torn down in 1948 and not reconstructed until 1993?
according to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus was buried in one of the rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel (pictured)?
actor Greg Kinnear (pictured) fills in for Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the Parks and Recreation episode, "The Camel"?
although the Apostles' Creed states that Jesus (pictured) is sitting at the right hand of God the Father, the New Testament also depicts him as standing and walking?
devotees across faiths swarmed St. Michael's Church, Mumbai, as news of a reported "bleeding" Jesus picture spread in June 2008?
in Revelation, Jesus holds seven stars in his right hand, which has been viewed as an implicit critique of a coin of Domitian which depicts his infant son with seven stars?

the Malankara Rite, a local Indian variant of the West Syrian Rite, contains some elements archaic in the wider West Syrian tradition, such as use of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in Lent?

a landmark court ruling has allowed Limerick pubs to sell alcohol today for the first time on Good Friday?

following the Grue Church fire on Pentecost 1822 in Solør, Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
soprano Adele Stolte recorded the Bach cantata for Pentecost Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 with the Thomanerchor conducted by Erhard Mauersberger?
soprano Dorothee Mields sang solo and tutti in five cantatas composed for Pentecost by the prolific Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, a contemporary of Bach?

Starobrno Brewery annually produces a special batch of green beer distributed only on Maundy Thursday?