Shrove Tuesday is also the last day of Shrovetide which actually starts with Shrove Saturday. Lent is a time when people give up something. In Eastern churches, Lent is a time to fast - which may ...

Also known as Shrove Tuesday, this day of feasting and celebration ... In the Christian tradition, people used this day as preparation for the Lenten fast. When Lent was observed more strictly ...

These days most people mark Shrove Tuesday by cooking pancakes in a nod to the custom of using up eggs and butter before the period of abstinence begins. The Inter-Livery race featured teams ...

Celebrated as Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, around the world, Shrove Tuesday, or "Pancake Day," derives from the English word meaning to seek forgiveness or be granted absolution. Skip to main content ...

In the past, a ‘shriving’ bell was rung on Shrove Tuesday to call people to church to confess their sins before lent began. Like Easter, Shrove Tuesday is on a different date each year because it is ...

There are other names for this day; some people just call it "pancake day ... of Western Europe," she said. "Traditionally Shrove Tuesday ... was a day of celebration and a day to use up ...

“Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” (absolved from their sins).” People ...

One of the earliest rules was 'no murder' - and one of the most recent is 'the ball must not be carried in a motorised vehicle!' ...

The sun came out in Wiltshire this week and the county has welcomed rare wildlife and also pancakes and spring re-openings. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Wiltshire Council have ...