The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a excellent quite a few pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. This bizarre personalized originated in Bavaria in the fifteenth century. In Cologne and Trier the solemn Vespers of Easter ended up abolished in the nineteenth century (Nord-Amerikanisches Pastoralblatt, April, 1908, p. The Greeks and Russians soon after their long, extreme Lent make Easter a day of common sporting activities. They could then make an honeſt Meal, and dine upon a Sallet devoid of ſo substantially as a Grain, of Exotic Spice And the Potagere was in ſuch Reputation, that ſhe who neglected her Kitchen-Garden (for that was ſtill the Good-Woman’s Province) was in no way reputed a tolerable Huſ-spouse: Si veſpertinus ſubitò te oppreſſerit hoſpes, ſhe was by no means ſurpriz’d, had all (as we ſaid) at hand, and could in a Trice ſet forth an handſome Sallet: And if this was Happineſs, Convictus facilis ſine arte menſa (as the Poet reckons) it was in this article in Perfection. Here is also the chair in which St. Peter sat, and the Pope seats himself in it when he is elected.