NARCISSI MERIT RECOGNITION AS PROPER EASTER FLOWERS
Easter has always been a festival of flowers. Indeed, one of the reasons why the early missionary church found it comparatively easy to get its converts to adopt this holy day was because most of them already had a holiday at the same season–a celebration of the returning sun, when they garnished houses and temples with fresh flowers.
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