Agile Mardi Gras: A Postcard from the UK – Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 23, 2025View source ↗

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is Carnival in the United Kingdom. It marks the traditional feast day before the start of lent on Ash Wednesday. The name Shrove comes from the old middle English word ‘Shriven’. Since Lent always starts on a Wednesday, people went to confession on the Tuesday before. This became known as … Continued. The post Agile Mardi Gras: A Postcard from the UK – Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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