Easter Monday
noun
: the Monday after Easter observed as a legal holiday in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and in North Carolina
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Pope Francis died at 7:35 a.m. on Easter Monday, April 21, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, announced.
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Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Following the news of the pontiff's death on Easter Monday, the King released an official statement via Buckingham Palace.
—Stephanie Petit, People.com, 18 May 2025
The conclave voted to select him just days after the death of Pope Francis, who died at 88 on Easter Monday.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
In the days since Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, amid the mourning, marveling at the ecclesiastical opulence, and the reveling in what felt like the Catholic Super Bowl, the divine mystique of the whole affair has drawn the world in.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 May 2025
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Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Following the news of the pontiff's death on Easter Monday, the King released an official statement via Buckingham Palace.
—Stephanie Petit, People.com, 18 May 2025
The conclave voted to select him just days after the death of Pope Francis, who died at 88 on Easter Monday.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
In the days since Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, amid the mourning, marveling at the ecclesiastical opulence, and the reveling in what felt like the Catholic Super Bowl, the divine mystique of the whole affair has drawn the world in.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 May 2025
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“Easter Monday.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Easter%20Monday. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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