Posts Tagged ‘Mardi Gras’

Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF MARDI GRAS Podcast version   ardi Gras means “Fat Tuesday” in French. It is celebrated the day after Shrove Monday and the day before Ash Wednesday as a last “fling” before the 40 days of self-denial of Lent, which precede Easter. Lent is a word that comes from the Middle English word “lente,” which…