Mardi Gras
By: Robert Richardson
Starting Saturday January 19, the Mardi Gras celebration will begin for 2013.
Mardi Gras is the celebration of enjoyment of fat foods ending of 'Fat Tuesday', which literally translates to Mardi Gras in French, and before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent is a 40-day period in which Christians prepare for Easter, the day that Jesus was Resurrected by fasting, repentance and giving up of luxuries.
Originally, the biggest Mardi Gras celebration was held in Rome. The celebration moved across Europe until it reached France in the late 18th century. With the establishment of colonies in the south, of the us, Mardi Gras balls were held. By the late 1830's the first 'parade' of Mardi Gras had come about. Processions of masked carriages and horseback riders walked through the streets, and in 1856, the first Krewe was established, the Mistick Krewe of Comus
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