Christian legend has it that when a perspiring Christ went to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before his execution. From his sweat sprang the lily, ever since a symbol to Christians of the Resurrection.
Be that as it may, the white, deliciously scented flowers associated with Easter today originated far from the Holy Land. Lilium longiflorum is native to Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands of the orient via Bermuda. Hence it is also known as, besides St. Joseph's Lily more commonly as the Bermuda Lily.