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Easter LilyBecause the traditional Easter color is white, a white lily has long been considered to be the Easter flower. It is a symbol of purity and represents the pure new life Christians are promised through the resurrection of Jesus.
Tradition has it that when Christ spent his hours of sorrow in the Garden of Gethsemane, before his capture and crucifixion, beads of his sweat fell to the ground, and later, where each drop had hit the ground, a beautiful white lily sprang up. Now, at Easter time, churches are decorated with masses of white Easter Lilies, to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and hope of life everlasting. The Easter Lily, Lilium Longiflorum, is a Japanese white lily introduced into America in the 19th Century, and now grown commercially in America for the Easter season. The beautiful trumpet-shaped white flowers symbolize the spiritual essence of Easter - purity, virtue, innocence, hope and life.
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