Easter bread bread which Romanians make for Easter and Christmas called "cozonac". During the weeks before Easter, special Easter bread is sold (in German: "Osterbrot", ). This is made with yeast dough, raisins, and almond splinters. Usually, it is cut in slices and spread with butter. People enjoy it either for breakfast or for tea time (in German: "Kaffee und Kuchen", literally ″coffee and cake″). The Dutch Easter bread is the so-called 'stol', a fruit bread with raisins and usually filled with almond paste. It is the same type of bread also eaten as a Christmas bread. In Sardinia, Italy, bread is
Easter Fire candle is lit, the community ceremoniously enters the dark church chanting "Lumen Christi" and "Deo gratias". The present-day rite normally follows the 1955 liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII and the "Summorum Pontificum" of 2007. While the Old Catholic rite deviates only in a few points, traditional Protestant (Lutheran) celebrations excluded fire blessings. According to the Eastern Orthodox tradition of the Holy Fire, worshippers light candles from the Paschal trikirion during service at Saturday Midnight, while the troparion is sung. On Holy Saturday or Easter Sunday, in rare occasions also on Easter Monday, large fires are lit at dusk in