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28 lis 2023 · Do you bleed purple, green and gold? Plan your trip for Mardi Gras in St. Louis, the nation’s second largest celebration.
Mardi Gras history, customs and the modern pre-Lenten revels that occur in a myriad of guises around the world.
13 lut 2024 · What started as a party among friends at a Soulard rowhouse apartment in 1979 has since grown into what many say is America’s second-largest Mardi Gras celebration — behind New Orleans, of...
29 sty 2023 · ST. LOUIS – The origins of Mardi Gras may stem in New Orleans, Louisiana, but St. Louis also has some deep-rooted connections to ‘Fat Tuesday.’. Back in the 1790s, the area now known as...
20 lut 2020 · St. Louis legend has it that Mardi Gras in Soulard started in 1979 with a group of drunk pals who walked down the streets of Soulard tossing beads to make their own fun before Lent began.
24 lut 2006 · You may already know that St. Louis puts on a huge celebration that is said to rank just under Carnival New Orleans. But where did Mardi Gras come from? How did the religiously rooted pre-Lenten party come to be the way it is? Read on for some Mardi Gras history, and get an idea of what there really is to celebrate.
Mardi Gras has a very rich history, with roots starting in Rome and traveling all the way to St. Louis in the late 20th century. Although some people see Mardi Gras as a single day of celebration, it actually goes on for many days and has religious meanings behind it.
