The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559 (detail)
Shrove Tuesday, also called
Pancake Day,
Pancake Tuesday,
Fat Tuesday and
Mardi Gras (which is French for "Fat Tuesday"), is the last day of feasting before
Lent begins on
Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is a moveable feast whose date whose date is linked to
Easter, so it changes on an annual basis. The date can vary from as early as February 3 to as late as March 9. It is preceded by
Shrove Monday and marks the end of Shrovetide, also known as the Pre-Lenten Season.
Shrove Tuesday is observed mainly in English-speaking countries, especially Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, but also in the Philippines and Germany.
Further reading:
Shrove Tuesday on Wikipedia
2022 calendar as templates for
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