Of Lent and abstinence from meat
Lent is the roughly six-week period extending from the end of Carnival to Easter Sunday. During this length of time, Roman Catholics abstain from consuming meat and other rich foods to commemorate the forty days of fasting that Jesus spent in the desert. Under the reign of Charlemagne, whoever failed to abstain from meat during […]
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