Fat Tuesday is the final day of Carnival season ... balls and festivities. In the Catholic tradition, the Lenten period begins on Ash Wednesday, the day after Mardi Gras. The Tuesday before ...

Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, is the last day before the start of Lent, or the Lenten period, in the Catholic tradition. Lent is observed as a period of fasting and self-sacrifice, and Fat Tuesday ...

Paczki are typically eaten on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday ... some of those celebrations and traditions melded with Christian ones, Ward said. In Poland, the tradition was to ...