Festum Ovorum

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|date = Saturday before Ash Wednesday

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Egg Saturday, Egg Feast, or Festum Ovorum is the Saturday before Ash Wednesday.Robert E. Brettle, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/507606 John Marston, Dramatist at Oxford, 1591 (?)–1594, 1609]. The Review of English Studies, Volume 3, Number 12, pages 398–405, October 1927. Oxford University Press. [http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/59878#eid5774858 Oxford English Dictionary: Egg-Saturday]

At the University of Oxford, pasch eggs have been provided for students on that day.{{cite journal |last=Bennett |first=J. A. W. |title=The Festum Ovorum |journal=Oxoniensia |volume=47 |year=1982 |pages=136–139 |url=http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1982/notes.pdf#page=4}} {{open access}}