Clean Monday
What about Monday 27 February? It's a Clean Monday!
So...Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρά Δευτέρα) is the first day of Lent. It refers to the leaving behind of sinful attitudes and non-fasting foods.
Clean Monday is a public holiday in Greece and Cyprus, where it is celebrated with outdoor excursions, the consumption of shellfish and other fasting food, a special kind of azyme bread, baked only on that day, named "lagana" (Greek: λαγάνα) and the widespread custom of flying kites.
Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis
(Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, 2 November 1911 – 18 March 1996)
was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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