Ash Wednesday

Powder Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of Lent in Western Christianity. It happens 46 days (40 fasting days, if the 6 Sundays, which are not days of quick, are barred) before Easter and can fall as ahead of schedule as 4 February or as late as 10 March. Cinder Wednesday is seen by numerous Western Christians, including Catholics,[note 1] Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans, and Presbyterians.
As per the standard accounts of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus Christ burned through 40 days fasting in the desert, where he persisted through enticement by Satan. Lent began as a reflecting of this, fasting 40 days as planning for Easter. Each Sunday was seen as a remembrance of the Sunday of Christ's revival thus as a gala day on which fasting was improper. In like manner, Christians fasted from Monday to Saturday (6 days) amid 6 weeks and from Wednesday to Saturday (4 days) in the previous week, along these lines making up the quantity of 40 days.
Slag Wednesday gets its name from the act of gift fiery debris produced using palm limbs favored on the earlier year's Palm Sunday, and setting them on the heads of members to the backup of the words "Apologize, and put stock in the Gospel" or "Recall that you are dust, and to clean you might return".