Christians commonly celebrate Ash Wednesday with ashes on their forehead and fasting to start the Lenten season, according to britannica.com. The practice reminds Christians of human mortality and ...

First of all, Ash Wednesday – the first day of Lent, the penitential season prior to Easter – begins on February 17. Secondly, the use of ashes and dust with religious or medical meanings ...

But when they leave — believing their sins have been cleansed by the redemptive bath — they leave with one thing in common: their foreheads ... turmeric and sacred ashes, these strokes ...

Across the world soon, you may find people with ash marks on their foreheads and talking ... a priest will mark a worshiper's forehead with ashes in the shape of a cross, and will say "Remember ...