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Two women at the Celebration of Mass and Distribution of Ashes

Thursday 25 February 1993 00:02 GMT
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Two women members of the congregation lighting candles at the Celebration of Mass and Distribution of Ashes, the Ash Wednesday lunchtime service at Westminster Cathedral in central London. Their foreheads have been marked with ash in the sign of the cross as a symbol of repentance.

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