"Easter celebrations participate in spring's theme of fertility and rebirth. In the midnight mass, the Pope wears a white robe and lights a large white candle of the ”new-fire” to symbolize the hope and new light of the resurrected Christ."
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Dennis L. Merritt in" Land, Seasons, Weather, Insect, Fisher King Press, 1 March 2013, p. 53.
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