Easter Sunday is the date of the annual celebration of Christ’s resurrection. The Orthodox Church celebrates the Easter on the basis of the Julian calendar. The date is not fixed, but denotes the same season of the year and the same relationship to the preceding astronomical full moon that occurred at the time of His resurrection in 30 A.D. Easter is one of the most important Christian holidays. This is a day of eternal joy, the day when Christ, the Son of God, conquered the death. By the act of resurrection Jesus Christ proved his divine power and opened the gate of eternal life, joy and happiness that we can find in our faith. On Easter Sunday morning the church bells toll, and the people, together with their priest, go round the church. After the third round they stand in front of the church doors. The priest carries the cross, candle and the censer and chants the Easter hymn. The doors open and they enter the church where liturgy continues. When it ends, people greet each other with the words: “The Christ has resurrected”, and “Indeed he has”. There are many customs connected with Easter Sunday, and certainly one of them that children like best, is colouring and offering of eggs. The first egg is coloured red and in many parts of our country it is called “The house keeper” and is kept for the whole year, until the next Easter.
On stamps and envelope are used museum exhibits from the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy Museum, Budim, Szentendre. The basic fund of the collection in Szentendre gives us a complete summary of the development of art in the Eparchy, and at the same time shows the fundamental characteristics of Orthodox Church Art in the Danube region and wider, particularly during the 18th. century.
Motif on the stamp face value 22,00 RSD: Resurrection of Christ, unknown workshop, detail of the Gospel filigree, XVIII century, (enamel, silver). Motif on the stamp face value 46,00 RSD: Resurrection of Christ, the upper part of the throne’s cross, unknown workshop, XIX century, (enamel, silver).
Motif on the envelope: Secret supper, Mihailo Živković, detail of the ancient iconostasis of the Serbian church in Balasadarmat, 1815, (wood, oil, 58 x 43 cm).
Graphic realization of the stamps: Nadežda Skočajić, graduated graphic artist. Expert collaboration: Kosta Vuković, Head of the Collection of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy Museum, Budim, Szentendre.
