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Ash Wednesday is today, marking the start of Lent and the Christian Easter Season. The holy day, also known as the Day of Ashes, has roots all the way back to the Middle Ages.

At Ash Wednesday Mass at Iona University in , hundreds of students received a symbol of the faith as the season of Lent begins -- a cross of ashes on the forehead, marking them as followers of ...

Feb. 17 is Ash Wednesday in the Christian church, the start of the 40-day season of Lent — a time of reflection and sacrifice on the way to Easter Sunday. In other years, the day is literally marked ...

For many Christians, Ash Wednesday is a day on which we reengage with some of the most fundamental signs of our religious community. The use of the cross on the forehead is a reminder of baptism.

Drive-by Ash Wednesday events were seen across the U.S., with clergymen finding new uses to the swabs many of us have become so used to throughout the pandemic, employing them to draw the ash crosses.