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Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the shriving (confessing) that English Christians were expected to do prior to receiving absolution immediately before Lent began.
WALES: YOUNGSTERS FLIP OUT FOR PANCAKE DAY FUN by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
It was there in 1455 that a housewife was making pancakes before Lent when she realised she was late for the Shriving Service at church and ran off still clutching her frying pan.
Race on to uphold an old custom by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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