08 | April | 2012

Vandals target Seattle church on Easter | www.kirotv.com.

SEATTLE — Messages were found spray-painted on St. James Cathedral in Seattle on Easter Sunday morning.

According to church officials, the incident happened between late Saturday evening and early Sunday morning.

Over a dozen messages were written on the church.

Back in March, anti-Catholic messages were stenciled at St. James Cathedral.

As of Sunday afternoon, crews were still cleaning up the graffiti.

Police are still investigating the incident and no one has been taken into custody.

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The Easter Bunny or Easter Rabbit is a character depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs, who sometimes is depicted with clothes. In legend, the creature brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Father Christmas, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holiday. It was first mentioned in Georg Franck von Frankenau‘s De ovis paschalibus (About Easter Eggs) in 1682 referring to an Alsace tradition of an Easter Hare bringing Easter Eggs.

The hare was a popular motif in medieval church art. In ancient times it was widely believed that the hare was hermaphrodite. The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child.

Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of antiquity. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox.