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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The day after her house burned down, Lara Ganz sent a group message to the youth theater troupe she runs: They would not let the Los Angeles firestorm stop their upcoming show ...

Hakan Kılıç and his family celebrate his mother-in-law's birthday every year in Türkiye's Yalova province next to a portrait of her made from her cremated ashes. Serap Lokmacı, who occasionally works ...

Artist/musician Juan Cisneros presents his own “Tethered Ashes” in Co-Lab’s outdoor space, a mystical concrete culvert among grassy patches and hanging lights. His art delves into the ...

Hakan Kilic and his family recently unwrapped a portrait of his mother-in-law that was made from her cremated ashes, the second of such paintings created for them by artist Serap Lokmaci.

The purpose of ashes dates back to early Roman practices, according to britannica.com. Serious sinners and penitents began a public penance on the first day of Lent. These people wore sackcloth ...

During that time they did acts of penance, like extra praying and fasting, and lying “in sackcloth and ashes,” as an outward action expressing interior sorrow and repentance. The customary ...

The ritual symbolism of ashes can be traced to the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament. According to biblical scholar Prof. John L. McKenzie, sackcloth and ashes appear at least 50 ...

When pronouncing these judgments, Jesus makes reference to sackcloth and ashes as a form of penitence. It was only in 1091, however, that their use was ritualized. Pope Urban II decreed the use of ...

Many followers will commemorate the first day of that period by getting blessed with ashes in the shape of a cross on their foreheads — and then spend the day wearing that symbol of their own ...

As part of this ritual, they were sprinkled with ashes, clothed in sackcloth, and required to stay apart from the community until their reconciliation on Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter.