Is today Fat Tuesday? What is the meaning and why do we celebrate? Here's what we know from king cakes to Holy Week schedule.

This year, March 4 is Shrove Tuesday - otherwise known as Pancake Day. Shrove Tuesday is a Christian festival marked all over ...

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day is the traditional feast day before the Lent fast starts on Ash Wednesday. Today, ...

Severn Trent are reminding customers to have a flipping good time this Shrove Tuesday, but to ‘be a binner, not a blocker’ by ...

If you weren’t aware, today isn’t formally known as Pancake Day. I know, I know, it’s a day all about pancakes. However, it’s ...

Lent is a period of 40 days which many Christians observe as a time of fasting, abstinence and penitence - here is everything ...

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is celebrated on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It's a day of feasting and ...

Single-shaming customs were especially prevalent in Munster with the 'Skellig Lists' mocking, teasing and insulting unmarried ...

One Irish custom of the day was that any holly left over from Christmas should be saved for the fire to make the pancakes. As eating meat was to be banned for Lent, animals were slaughtered for a ...

Tuesday, March 4 is commonly referred to as pancake Tuesday. It's also called Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday. t's typically ...

Shrove Tuesday, also commonly referred to as Pancake Day, is a celebration that’s observed the day before Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the first day of the Christian observance of Lent, a 40-day ...