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The New Crusade

A Blog dedicated to the promotion of the Traditional Roman Catholic Faith in union with HH Benedict XVI, to the preservation of our Traditional Græco-Roman Catholic Civilisation and to the New Crusade against Islam. This Blog is under the Patronage of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Christ our King and His Holy Mother, our Queen and of Santiago Matamoros (St James the Moor-slayer) and the Crusader King, St Louis IX of France.

28 février 2006

Pridie Kal. Martii AUC 2758/AM 7514

Today is a Feria. The Votive Mass of the Holy Angels is traditional. It is also Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday.

From the East:

•John Cassian. His biography from The Catholic Encyclopædia.

Basil the Confessor

From Ted Hewitt's Group:

Shrove Tuesday, the eve of Lent — also known as Mardi Gras
(literally "fat Tuesday" in French), Carnival (from the Latin
for "farewell to the flesh"), and Fasnacht (the Germanic "night of
the fast")