📚 noun • entry_id 31406
Ash Wednesday
Meanings (ES + gloss)
miércoles de ceniza
The Wednesday 46 days before Easter in a given year, (Catholicism) traditionally observed as the beginning of Lent and a day of strict abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
Pope Gregory the Great introduced the sprinkling of ashes... which gave it the name of Ash-Wednesday.
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