The events between Jesus’ death and Resurrection – when he descended into the underworld to rescue Adam and ‘the just’ – were among the most spectacular parts of the Easter story for medieval Christians. It is time to revive them, in all their dramatic glory ost CATHOLICS feel Easter Saturday is a bit of a non-day. Actually, make that the whole time from the end of the 3 p.m. service on Good Friday, after which there’s an anti-climactic gap until the Easter Vigil or Easter Sunday morning. The only practical question when it comes to the in-between time is whether Lent is actually over at this point, and whether we can start giving up on abstinence, though only very bad people eat Easter eggs before Sunday.ut the Christian imagination was busily at work