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This is in direct answer to a question from a "Off Topixite".
Holy Week is the group of weekdays between the Sunday called Palm Sunday which is traditionally regarded as the day of the "Triumphal Entry" of Christ into the city of Jerusalem where the people of the city proclaimed "Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord", including the Friday when many of those same people were seen asking for Him to be Executed by the Romans for various crimes including Blasphemy, now called Good Friday, and culminating in Resurrection Sunday (Easter).
The names given to the various days in the modern calender, including Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday DO NOT appear in the Christian Bible.
Instead, the events of the week are wrapped around various Jewish observances, including Passover and the Sabbath.
Also, the celebration of "Easter" as the day of the Resurrection is essentially unknown in the First Century Church. As is the marking of the occasion of the Birth of Christ in December. Which, as it turns out, it wasn't.
How "Easter" came to be associated with bunny rabbits, colored eggs, and chocolate is a question best left up to the good people at Hallmark and Brachs, but suffice it to say there is enough pagan and ancient symbolism posing as Christian ideas to, say... decorate a Christmas Tree.
You can read the account of "the Passion of Christ" (as some call it) at your leisure here:
Beginning with the Betrayal and arrest in Luke 22 and ending a couple of chapters later in 24 with the Resurrection.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2022&version=NIV
Holy Week is the group of weekdays between the Sunday called Palm Sunday which is traditionally regarded as the day of the "Triumphal Entry" of Christ into the city of Jerusalem where the people of the city proclaimed "Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord", including the Friday when many of those same people were seen asking for Him to be Executed by the Romans for various crimes including Blasphemy, now called Good Friday, and culminating in Resurrection Sunday (Easter).
The names given to the various days in the modern calender, including Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday DO NOT appear in the Christian Bible.
Instead, the events of the week are wrapped around various Jewish observances, including Passover and the Sabbath.
Also, the celebration of "Easter" as the day of the Resurrection is essentially unknown in the First Century Church. As is the marking of the occasion of the Birth of Christ in December. Which, as it turns out, it wasn't.
How "Easter" came to be associated with bunny rabbits, colored eggs, and chocolate is a question best left up to the good people at Hallmark and Brachs, but suffice it to say there is enough pagan and ancient symbolism posing as Christian ideas to, say... decorate a Christmas Tree.
You can read the account of "the Passion of Christ" (as some call it) at your leisure here:
Beginning with the Betrayal and arrest in Luke 22 and ending a couple of chapters later in 24 with the Resurrection.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2022&version=NIV
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