Carnival in the Netherlands coming years are: Traditionally a Carnaval feast was the last opportunity to eat well before the time of food shortage at the end of the winter during which one was limited to the minimum necessary. On what nowadays is called "vastenavond" (the days before fasting) all the remaining winter stores of lard, butter and meat which were left would be eaten, for it would soon start to rot and decay. The selected livestock had in fact already been slaughtered in November and the meat would be no longer preservable. All the food that had survived the winter had to be
Christianity in Roman Britain Christian community. Dorothy Watts suggested that Christianity was perhaps introduced to Britain in the latter part of the second century. Circa 200, the Carthaginian theologian Tertullian included Britain in a list of places reached by Christianity in his work, "Adversus Judaeos". The Greek theologian Origen also wrote that Christianity had reached Britain. The accuracy of these statements can be questions given that both writers had a strong rhetorical aspect to their work, which was designed to glorify what was still an illegal and underground religious movement. It is nevertheless possible that Tertullian and Origen were basing their statements on some