Easter this year is a festival to particularly savour for Christians around the world. In a relatively rare occurrence, Eastern and Western traditions find that their liturgical calendars coincide, with Easter Sunday happening on the same date. It won’t happen again until 2034.
In Western Europe, it is barely noticed that the movable feast of Easter is not universally celebrated on one day each year. Nor does the fact that “Western” and “Orthodox” Easters move on different paths cause significant problems. But at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, it is a very different story.
On my first visit