Today is Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. The Tuesday before Ash Wednesday & start of Lent. The origins of Mardi Gras link back to pagan celebrations of the arrival of spring and fertility. This day is celebrated with parades & feasts before the start of the fasting season of Lent https://t.co/KrbTfxODIx
Today is the two year anniversary of @AlboMP giving the finger to a group of trans students at Mardi Gras who were protesting the #ReligionDiscriminationBill. https://t.co/YLHWcqZ214
USPS lost my sister's Christmas gift for 11 weeks, so when it finally showed up, I rebranded it as a Mardi Gras present and made her day today! Thanks @gayguycandleco it was worth the wait! ❤ https://t.co/Q4mrbJf4sg
Met a staffer at the Combine whose son lives in New Orleans. We started talking about Mardi Gras. She looks at me and goes “You look tired.” We both started laughing. Bunch of New Orleanians walking into work today like this: https://t.co/p30e1YOLPn
Happy Mardi Gras #GramFam! GSU Alumnus and 2022 King Zulu Randolph Davis and the World Famed GSU Marching Band made history in the ‘Big Easy’ today on Fat Tuesday! #GSU #HBCUs #GSUMassComm https://t.co/1lWd4el7Xw
“Holy face of Jesus, forgive those who today on Mardi Gras, blaspheme with curses, recurring to the mortal sins as gluttony, lust, envy, greed and others.. May the prayer of your devotees, be in some way, a relief against this sinful people that knowing you they prefer sin”.
-A. https://t.co/wCpXRuqutg
#Legendary #HBCUs Former Campus Queens Ms. Grambling State University (left) and Ms. Southern University (right) also reigned today with King and Queen Zulu ! Happy Mardi Gras ya’ll! #GramFam https://t.co/chvvx4djZy
It’s Carnival Day today my friends! And you know what that means… Those twos sure did a jest that’s rode them to the spotlight… But not at the way they expected! For a greasy joke, they’re now jesters for Mardi Gras!
Happy #carnival2022 !
#CrashBandicoot https://t.co/A6C4bD2xOL
— Aso 🐭🥭🦎 #ABetterABK 🥭Crash will be fine (@AsoGirl29) March 1, 2022
Mardi Gras in 2022
Mardi Gras marks the end of the Carnival season which is a period observed by many Roman Catholics. It starts at Epiphany on January 6 and ends on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.