Unless you've grown up enjoying after-Easter-chocolate-special offers, dying the eggs red is a new thing to you. So, where did we get this tradition from? None less than the Holy Myrrhbearer, the Equal-to-the-Apostles, Saint Mary Magdalene.
Don't just dye the eggs! Know why you do that! Learn the true story!
One interesting thing happened as soon as this Paterikon #34 was out, we got a call from a village, which the Saint had visited on her way to Rome. It was a chanter from the parish of that village, and he ordered five hundred copies, one for each inhabitant of the village, and for those from a couple of neighboring villages.
Now in a fourth edition!
Available in English, Greek, and, soon, God-willing, in Romanian.