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It is distinguished from the is of six weeks instead of four, and there is no Ash Wednesday, as Lent starts on Sunday, so the Ambrosian Carnival ends four days later, on "sabato grasso" (Italian for ''fat Saturday''), the equivalent of Shrove Tuesday or " Mardi Gras " (French for ''fat Tuesday'') in the folk practices of the Roman Rite . The ''Liturgy of the Hours'' (''Divine Office'' or ''Breviary'') and the prayers and ceremonies of some of the Sacraments are different in structure and various features, as is the Mass . Although at various points in its history the distinctive Ambrosian Rite has risked suppression, it survived after the , and the Blessed Ildefonso Schuster, both of whom had been involved in studies and publications on the Rite before their appointment. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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