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Ash Wednesday – February 13th – religious holiday


A priest marks a cross of ashes on a worshipper's forehead.

Ash Wednesday, in Christian churches, is the first day of the penitential season of Lent. On Ash Wednesday some Christians have a smudge of ashes placed on their foreheads as a sign of penitence.

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