(Din) The first day of Lent in the Western Christian Church, marked by services of penitence. From the custom of marking the foreheads of penitents with ashes on that day
Basel Carnival starts at precisely four o'clock in the morning on the Monday after Ash Wednesday, the firs day of Lent, and lasts 72 hours to minute.
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. The seventh Wednesday before Easter and the first day of Lent, on which many Christians receive a mark of ashes on the forehead as a token of penitence and mortality. the first day of Lent