Two holidays: Easter and Passover observances coincide this year

Both are early spring festivals and the French word for both is the same: Easter is spelled Pâques and Passover is Pâque. Their precise dates are calculated with different calendars — the Christian calendar is based on the sun and the Hebrew calendar is determined both by the sun and the moon — but occasionally the two holidays overlap.
This is one of those years.
Passover, which begins Friday at sundown, commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in