First Sunday after Easter, named by contrast with that high feast; also called Sunday in albis (in white) because of the custom in the early Church of laying aside on the eve of this day the baptismal robes of those who had been baptized on Easter Eve; sometimes named Quasimodo, from the first word of the Introit, and Antipasch (the close of the Pasch, or of Easter Week.
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