Carnival Festival

Carnival

Carnival

Blog Post #2

     April 12, 2015     

 Julian Johnson

One of the most well know festivals in Brazil is the Carnival, it is an annual festival held between the Friday afternoon 51 days before Easter and Ash Wednesday at noon, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter. This is a very important festival for Catholics. During this time period Catholics stay away from the consumption of meat and poultry, hence the term carnival, from “carnelevare”, which means to remove meat. The types of food, music and costumes for the carnival vary from one region of Brazil to another. This is a time of religious happiness, where all of the different cultures of Brazil come together as one and celebrate the death and rising of Christ. Catholicism is the most practiced religion in Brazil at the moment with 65% percent of Brazil practicing Catholicism. Carnival is almost the equivalent of Mardi Gras, being that they both display the areas unique deep cultures through their clothes, food, dances and songs.

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