Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent and falls six and a half weeks before Easter.
Pope Francis blesses a nun during the Ash Wednesday mass which opens Lent, the forty-day period of abstinence and deprivation for Christians before Holy Week and Easter, on March 6, 2019 at the Santa Sabina church in Rome.
In case you are wondering why these individuals have ash on their forehead or maybe you are even one of such individuals, today is an important date in the Christian calendar as faith members observeAsh Wednesday gets its name from early traditions in the Christian Church in Rome when penitents and sinners would partake in a period of public penance.
The ashes come from burning palms used on Palm Sunday. They are then blessed before being used in the ceremony.
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