Today@Dal

March 1
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday marks the first day, or the start of the season of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter (Sundays are not included in the count). Lent is a time when many Christians prepare for Easter by observing a period of fasting, repentance, moderation, and spiritual discipline. During some Ash Wednesday services, the minister will lightly rub the sign of the cross with ashes onto the foreheads of worshipers.

St. David’s Day
Saint David's Day is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on the first day of March, chosen in remembrance of the death of Saint David. Tradition holds that he died on that day in 601. The date was declared a national day of celebration within Wales in the 18th century.

March 2-20
Ala, Fast of Nineteen Days (BA)
Ala (Loftiness) is the 19th and final month. The Nineteen-Day Fast is a nineteen-day period of the year, during which members of the Bahá'í Faith adhere to a sunrise-to-sunset fast. Along with obligatory prayer, it is one of the greatest obligations of a Bahá'í, and its chief purpose is spiritual: to reinvigorate the soul and bring the person closer to God.

March 3
World Day of Prayer
Held the first Friday in March, this is an international movement of women who came together in 1927 to observe a common day of prayer each year. It is carried out by women in over 170 countries annually and aims to bring together women of various races, cultures and traditions in a yearly common Day of Prayer, as well as in closer fellowship, understanding and action throughout the year.

March 5
St. Piran’s Day
The day is named after one of the patron saints of Cornwall, Saint Piran, who is also the patron saint of tin miners. St Piran's Day started as one of the many tinners' holidays observed by the tin miners of Cornwall. The miners of Breage and Germoe observed St Piran's feast day as that of their patron saint until at least 1764.