This seemingly simple activity, involving bright red dyed eggs and a touch of friendly rivalry, holds deep symbolic meaning and historical roots within Greek Orthodox Easter customs. [feast ...

Traditionally the egg is seen by Christians as a symbol of life, resurrection, and rebirth—a hard shell holding a new life within. In the Greek Orthodox religion, it isn't a proper Easter ...

and Greek Orthodox Easter is celebrated by enjoying traditional foods like lamb, and attending Friday, Saturday, and Sunday church services. Families dye Easter eggs red to represent the blood of ...

Eggs also play an important part of Orthodox Easter celebrations—though they differ slightly from country to country. In Greece, hard-boiled eggs are dyed a bright red. In Ukraine, Pysanky eggs ...

In the Macedonian Orthodox Church "St. George and St.Mary, Holy Mother of God" from Melbourne twenty children this year also competed in painting and decorating Orthodox Easter eggs. The Orthodox ...