What is the significance of Fat Tuesday?
We searched on “Fat Tuesday” and found our way to Yahoo!’s Shrove Tuesday and Mardi Gras categories faster than you can say laissez les bons temps rouler (let the good times roll). We quickly learned that “Mardi Gras” is French for “Fat Tuesday,” and that this festive occasion is the last day before the Catholic observance of Lent. Lent is a period of penitence before Easter. In the early Christian Church, the ritual of baptism was primarily pe
