The priests welcome the faithful with the traditional greeting 'Christ has risen' which will be exchanged for the coming fourty days .
Traditionally Orthodox Easter is celebrated for three days. After masses, the faithful sit to the Easter breakfast. It is the most important holiday in the calendar of the Christian Orthodox Church.
Catholics and Protestants celebrate Easter on the first spring full moon. In the Orthodox Church Easter Sunday falls after the end of the Jewish Pesach.
The Christian Orthodox church is the second largest church in Poland. There are over 500 thousand faithful; the majority comes from the eastern regions of Poland.

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