Easter traditions the Easter Vigil a priest also blesses the parishioners' Easter baskets, which include Easter eggs, paska, butter, cheese, kovbasa, salt and a few other products. With this food, on their return home, people break their fast. The ritual is called "'rozhovyny"'. People visit their relatives and neighbours exchanging Easter greetings. Celebration of Easter in Ukraine is filled with many other customs and rituals, most of which are centuries-old. In Florence, Italy, the unique custom of the Scoppio del carro is observed in which a holy fire lit from stone shards from the Holy Sepulchre are used to light a fire
Easter Monday Republic of Ireland it is a day of remembrance for the men and women who died in the Easter Rising which began on Easter Monday 1916. Until 1966, there was a parade of veterans, past the headquarters of the Irish Republican Army at the General Post Office (GPO) on O'Connell Street, and a reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. "Śmigus-dyngus" (or "Lany Poniedziałek", the Polish for "Wet Monday") is the name for Easter Monday in Poland and the diaspora. In the Czech Republic it is called "velikonoční pondělí". In Slovakia "veľkonočný pondelok", also called "Šibačka/Polievačka" or "Oblievačka". In