[Propertalk] A very brief history of Ash Wednesday

[Joe Parrish]

Ash Wednesday
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Ash "Wednesday <> is the first day of the Lenten fast. 

"The name dies cinerum (day of ashes) which it bears in the Roman Missal is found in the earliest existing copies of the Gregorian Sacramentary and probably dates from at least the eighth century. 
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It is mentioned as of general observance for both clerics and faithful in the Synod of Beneventum, 1091 (Mansi, XX, 739), but nearly a hundred years earlier than this the Anglo-Saxon homilist Ælfric assumes that it applies to all classes of men."
Peace and Ash Wednesday blessings,
Joe




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