In the Ambrosian Rite, ashes are blessed and placed on the heads of the faithful not on the day that elsewhere is called Ash Wednesday, but at the end of Mass on the following Sunday, which in that rite inaugurates Lent, with the fast traditionally beginning on Monday, the first weekday of the Ambrosian Lent.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben (born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben; September 17, 1730 â November 28, 1794), also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian and American military officer.
People Celebrity. Celebrity. Inside Vice President Joe Biden s Family Tragedies. As the Biden family mourns the death of Beau Biden, the former Delaware Attorney General who died on Saturday of brain cancer at 46, it s a sad reminder of the many personal tragedies that have befallen the vice president.