Download - Easter in catalonia vs. easter in uk
Etna Papaseit
Carmen Munteanu
Mirabela Bulica
*Easter in Catalonia VS. Easter in UK
*Summary
*What is easter?
*Easter in Catalonia
*Easter in Britain
*What is easter?*Easter is a celebration of Christianity religion
on the resurrection of Jesus and is celebrated on the third day after being crucified.
*Easter is the end of Lent. Ends with on Holy Friday, Holy Saturday, Holy Sunday and Easter Monday.
*Easter in Catalonia
*Easter in Catalonia is based on typical food and Christianity religion.
*The typical food is “la Mona”, “pastissets”, “bunyols” of lent, “la coca de llardons” and codfish.
*The typical celebrations of Christianity religion are Palm Sunday, Glory Saturday and processions.
*“La Mona”*“La Mona” is a cake made of “pa de pessic”
or chocolate.
*It is filled with chocolate, “cabell d’angel”, pumpkin or jam.
*Godparents give the “Mona” to their godchildren.
*Bacallà*It Is the fish that represents Lent and is
used to make bunyols and another type of food.
*It Is a salty fish.
*Lent*It Is the period of forty days before Easter
in the Christian calendar that indicates to prepare for Easter.
*It begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday.
*It is shaped like an old woman crumpled with seven legs losing one by one as they pass the seven weeks of Lent.
*She was dressed like an old Catalan woman.
*In the hands takes two codfish.
*Was responsible for ensuring that children eat fish during Lent.
*Easter celebrations*Palm Sunday commemorates the entrance of
Jesus into Jerusalem.
*Holy Monday cycles begin Easter processions in many towns.
*Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Dinner.
*Holy Friday remember the Crucifixion
*Holy Saturday it celebrates the Easter Vigil.
*Easter Sunday celebrates the Resurrection.
*Easter Monday
*Easter in UK*Easter is the time for holidays, festivals and
a time for giving chocolate Easter eggs.
*The traditional food is hot cross buns, easter eggs and simnel cake
*The traditional game is rolling eggs.
*Hot cross buns*In Easter we made Hot Cross Buns.
* Are traditionally served on Good Friday.
*A Hot Cross Bun is rich, spiced tea cake.
* It’s made with candied fruit, raisins...
*Easter eggs
*Easter eggs are boiled eggs and they are painted.
*With eggs, the children play a game that consists of hiding a message and other people have to find it.
*Simnel cake*Simnel cake is baked for tea.
*The Simnel cake is a fruit cake with a flat layer of marzipan (sugar almond paste) on top and decorated with 11 marzipan balls representing the 12 apostles minus Judas, who betrayed Christ.
*Palm sunday*The Sunday before Easter is known as
Palm Sunday.
*The people goes to the streets with a palm that symbolizes when Jesus entered in Jerusalem.
*Rolling eggs*Egg rolling is very popular in England and
is an Easter Monday sport.
*Hard-boiled eggs are rolled down a hill. There are different customs from one place to another.
*Win who shoots the egg further away, survives as many rolls, or is rolled between two pegs.
*Web sites
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter