Fatty Tuesday
fatty Tuesday is a Fête of origin Catholique which marks, in apotheosis, the end of the week seven days fatty formerly called carnal days . This period during which one feasted precedes the Ash Wednesday marking the beginning of the Lent. Many a Carnaval S takes place the fatty Tuesday . In Europe, the fall of the religious practices of abstinence during the Lent returned the festivities of the fatty days good less intense. With the the United States, with the New-Orleans, fatty Tuesday is a very important and famous festival.
The current dates of this festival are Tuesday in, in and in.
Fatty Tuesday, popularly, is also the day when the famous " is eaten; fritters of carnaval". The festivities associated with the carnival precede, in the Christian tradition, the entry in the Lent during which the Christian eats " maigre" , while abstaining from in particular meat; from where etymology of the word " carnaval" who derives from medieval Latin: " carnelevare" meaning: " to remove, withdraw the chair" (i.e. " to withdraw the viande" table, of which it will remain absent during all the Lent).
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