Christian Carnival

In the thirteenth century, was institutionalized period Carnival - from the phrase "before Sunday tollendas meat", that is, the Sunday before the withdrawal
of meat-, three days before Ash Wednesday as a celebration of banguetes, dances and fun.
Thus, in the Middle Ages, coinciding with the tightening Lent, the former Renaissance festivals pagan dionisíaco, Lupercalia, feasts and other saturnales transgressive and orgies.

Carnival-of carnevale (goodbye to meat) or carnem levare (guitar meat) - after launching the people toward excesses of freedom, gluttony and lust, languished on Carnival Tuesday to make way for the severe Lent in the next day . Ash Wednesday, and general absolution of sins. Thus was fulfilled: "first sin, then confess."