Etymology

Clean Monday

Today it means: The seventh Monday before Easter, (Eastern Christianity) traditionally regarded as the beginning of Lent or Great Lent. Full definition →

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The story

From the Old Testament reading at sext on this day, Isaiah 1:16, “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil...”

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