Easter in Latvia Easter in Latvia The Christian festival of Easter is celebrated in Latvia as Lieldienas (). Lieldienas enters Holy Week with Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, but Sunday will mark first Lieldienas. Second Lieldienas is on Monday of the following week. Each day has a special significance. Also, many pagan elements of celebrating Lieldienas have become a tradition. Nowadays, the common date of Lieldienas is the first Sunday after the first full moon, after or during the vernal equinox. Thus, the Western Christian Church Lieldienas falls on a date between 22 March and 25 April. In Eastern
Thursday October Christian I house was the oldest building still standing on the island, until it was demolished on 12 March 2004 because of termite damage. Thursday's life story was written by R. M. Ballantyne in "The Lonely Island; or, The Refuge of the Mutineers" (1880). He also appears in Charles Dickens' "The Long Voyage" (1853). Thursday October Christian is also mentioned on the Rasputina album "Oh Perilous World". Thursday October Christian I Thursday October Christian (14 October 1790 – 21 April 1831) was the first son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the historical mutiny on the "Bounty") and his Tahitian wife Mauatua. He