The Christian World Celebrates Ash Wednesday
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Lent
A priest marks the foreheads of young children at a church in Fot, Hungary on Feb. 22, 2012, during Ash Wednesday celebrations. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the liturgical season preceding Easter Sunday.
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