Ash Wednesday

Summary

Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day^[1]. It draws 719 Wikipedia views per month (christian_holy_day category, ranking #8 of 32).^[2]

Key Facts

• Ash Wednesday's image is recorded as Crossofashes.jpg^[3].
• Ash Wednesday's instance of is recorded as Christian holy day^[4].
• Ash Wednesday's follows is recorded as Shrove Tuesday^[5].
• Ash Wednesday's followed by is recorded as Invocavit^[6].
• Ash Wednesday's GND ID is recorded as 4275831-2^[7].
• Ash Wednesday's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh86007689^[8].
• Ash Wednesday's Commons category is recorded as Ash Wednesday^[9].
• Ash Wednesday's color is recorded as black^[10].
• Ash Wednesday's color is recorded as violet^[11].
• Ash Wednesday's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 56726^[12].
• Ash Wednesday's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/016v5t^[13].
• Ash Wednesday's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph904223^[14].
• Ash Wednesday's day in year for periodic occurrence is recorded as Easter − 46 days^[15].
• Ash Wednesday's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300069636^[16].
• Ash Wednesday's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 394.266^[17].
• Ash Wednesday's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 263.925^[18].
• Ash Wednesday's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1286640^[19].
• Ash Wednesday's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[20].
• Ash Wednesday's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[21].
• Ash Wednesday's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia^[22].
• Ash Wednesday's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[23].
• Ash Wednesday's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'la', 'text': 'Dies Cinerum'}^[24].
• Ash Wednesday's name in kana is recorded as はいのすいようび^[25].
• Ash Wednesday's different from is recorded as Q61982917^[26].
• Ash Wednesday's uses is recorded as ash cross^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Ash Wednesday include it^[28], a film^[29], directed by Larry Peerce^[30].

Why It Matters

Ash Wednesday draws 719 Wikipedia views per month (christian_holy_day category, ranking #8 of 32).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[31] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[32]

Entities named for it include it^[28], a film^[29], directed by Larry Peerce^[30].