Carnival Season typically starts after Epiphany on Jan. 6 and culminates on Ash Wednesday, which falls on March 5 this year.

It's almost time to break out your King Cake and Mardi Gras beads — Fat Tuesday is just around the corner. Though many don't traditionally associate Carnival Season with Easter, the monthslong ...

A group of archaeologists describes details of the 5,000-year-old burial of 20 women adorned with perforated beads ...

It always occurs the day before Ash Wednesday. Lent, a 40-day period of prayer and fasting in Christian traditions, begins on ...

Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, is less than a month away. Here's what to know about the end of the vibrant ...

It always occurs the day before Ash Wednesday. Lent, a 40-day period of prayer and fasting in Christian traditions, begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025, and ends on Maundy Thursday, April 17 ...

The Rosary Beads The physical "rosary" is not a Christian invention. It was ... The transfer of the name rosary from the prayer form to the physical object took place at the beginning of the sixteenth ...

"Christian prayer tries above all to meditate on the ... Then proceed to the recitation of the decade. On the large bead say the Our Father. On each of the ten small beads, say a Hail Mary.

Bernadette said her prayers and when she was finished she ... Today, Lourdes remains one of the most frequented Christian shrines in the world. More than 3 million visitors, pilgrims and tourists ...

He clutches his prayer beads and watches his granddaughter put ... bearing four lockets -- a heart for love, a cross for her Christian faith, a sand dollar for her fondness of the beach and ...