When pronouncing these judgments, Jesus makes reference to sackcloth and ashes as a form of penitence. As early as the ninth ...

They abstain from food and wear sackcloth and ashes as a sign of mourning and penance. They are liturgically literate and ritually right. They want to draw closer to God, and this is the way they ...

Various instruments began to be used to carry out penances that required physical pain, including sackcloth and whips ... who embodied in art the shame of the condemned who wore the hat.

Back then they were sprinkled with ashes, dressed in sackcloth, and obliged to remain ... saying - 'Thou art dust and unto dust thou shall return'. Easter concludes the 40 days period of fasting ...