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Congregants with ash crosses on their foreheads stand in pews during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC.
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Parishioners line up to receive ashes from priests at the front of Annunciation Catholic Church in Washington, DC, while others sit in wooden pews on Ash Wednesday. The Easter Story A priest in a pink vestment marks a cross with ashes on a woman's forehead during Ash Wednesday in a Catholic church in Chunakhali, West Bengal, India.
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Christ as Ruler, with the Apostles and Evangelists (represented by the beasts). The female figures are believed to be either Santa Pudenziana and Santa Praxedes or symbols of the Jewish and Gentile churches. Mosaic in the apse of Santa Pudenziana, Rome,A
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What and when is Easter?
Celebrations of Easter have been documented as early as the 2nd century.
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A day of penitence
Somber worshipers attending an Ash Wednesday mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew...
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Parishioners attending a service on Ash Wednesday.
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The Easter Story
Explore the Biblical figures, theology, and observances of Easter and Holy Week....
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