On Ash Wednesday, its streets fill with smartly-dressed professionals proudly sporting charcoal crosses on their foreheads.
Willa, as he called his wife, was driving home from Ash Wednesday church services.
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Thamyris Nagall, a 23-year-old attending the Ash Wednesday Mass in Sao Paulo, said it's time for a pope from Latin America.
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Last month, I attended an Ash Wednesday service at the church.
Parades last for about four weeks before Ash Wednesday, with the entire island thronging in the capital, Oranjestad, for the Grand Parade on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.
There was a profusion of exceptions, including religious holidays like Ash Wednesday and the Solemnity of the Ascension, but nobody, including ticket agents, seemed to know them all.
The pontiff had originally been scheduled to celebrate Ash Wednesday at the small Sant' Anselmo church, then lead a procession to Santa Sabina Basilica on Rome's Aventine Hill.
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Scherer, who leads the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo, one of the world's largest with an estimated 6 million members, met with scores of reporters inside the Se Cathedral before celebrating Ash Wednesday Mass.
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the most solemn season on the church's liturgical calendar that ends with Holy Week, when the faithful commemorate the death of Christ and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
In a homily at his final Ash Wednesday mass in Saint Peter's basilica earlier in the month, he said the Catholic Church had been "defiled" by internal divisions, and suggested that he had been surrounded by "too much individualism and personal rivalry".
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The disruption has affected hundreds of thousands of travellers since Wednesday when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting for the second time in a month, hurling a plume of ash 11km (seven miles) into the atmosphere.
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