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Definition of Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday Ash` Wednes"day ([a^]sh` w[e^]nz"d[asl]). The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

Meaning of Ash Wednesday from wikipedia

- Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and marks the first day of...
- The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II, were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia in 1983...
- Ash Wednesday (sometimes Ash-Wednesday) is a long poem written by T. S. Eliot during his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930, the poem deals...
- Ash Wednesday in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ash Wednesday is a Christian religious holiday. Ash Wednesday may also refer to creative works: Ash...
- aligned by the astrological signs of Gemini and Virgo.[citation needed] Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent in the Western Christian tradition, occurs forty-six...
- In Lent-observing Western Christian denominations, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six w****s later; depending on the Christian denomination...
- Ash Wednesday is a 2002 American crime drama film written and directed by Edward Burns. It stars Burns alongside Elijah Wood and Rosario Dawson. The film...
- Ash Wednesday is the debut studio album by singer songwriter Elvis Perkins, released on February 20, 2007, on XL Recordings. It is a chronologically sequenced...
- Shrovetide, marking the end of pre-Lent. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is observed in many Christian countries through parti****ting...
- Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of...