Celebrated from Jan. 6 until Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras is a pre-Lent celebration, along with a celebration of the people and the average worker thumbing their nose at royalty. Around 1699 ...

Mardi Gras is a celebratory day marking the close of the pre-Lenten season ... The concept is to make it easier to fully engage in Lent and experience spiritual growth. Fat Tuesday actually ...

Easter is a week away, ending 40 days of repentance and fasting for Christians known as Lent. In New Orleans, the contrast from Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday to Ash Wednesday and weeks of reflection ...

and continues until Mardi Gras, which is the final day of feasting, drinking and revelry before Ash Wednesday and the fasting associated with Lent, the Christian season of preparation for Easter.

Mardi Gras is celebrated around the world on Shrove ... just in case. In Poland, the pre-Lent celebrations take place a little earlier than in the UK. On the Thursday before Lent begins, people ...

Wrapping up the season, Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday arrives every year on the Tuesday before Lent. This year, that’s March 4. As Skull and Bones parades through Tremé, there’s drumming and chanting.

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent. This picture shows Catholic worshippers at a Mass in Washington DC. Their foreheads are marked with crosses of black ash. Mardi Gras is French for ‘Fat ...