Easter Week

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Easter Week is the week beginning with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday. The term is often inaccurately used to mean the week before Easter, which is properly known as Holy Week.

While the usage is not widespread, the days of Easter Week, are known as Easter Sunday (Easter Day, the beginning of the Easter season), Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday, Easter Thursday, Easter Friday, and Easter Saturday. In former years, Easter, as the most important celebration in Christianity (as it marked the miraculous resurrection of Jesus), was observed for a week, but the celebrations have waned and have largely shrunk. Many Easter-ish celebrations now occur on Easter Monday only.