Mystery as churchgoers' foreheads are BURNED after receiving mark of the cross on Ash Wednesday

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Mystery as churchgoers' foreheads are BURNED after receiving mark of the cross on Ash Wednesday

Daily Mail
By CHRIS MELORE
7 March 2025



A couple was mysteriously burned on the forehead after receiving the mark of the cross on Ash Wednesday.

Sara Heloísa Sousa and her boyfriend Luan Jackson from Brazil shared their stories after the March 5 incident in Carnaúba dos Dantas, which left them both with visible burns where the ashes had been.

Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, where Christians traditionally go to church and receive a cross-shaped mark on their heads using the ashes of burnt palm leaves.

At the evening ceremony in the Parish of São José, however, the annual ritual took a turn when the couple said they overheard several people claiming the mark was starting to burn.

Jackson, who left the ashes on longer than his girlfriend, was left with a large burn and bruise in the middle of his forehead.

Sousa escaped with a much smaller wound, but the shape of a cross was still visible when she spoke about the incident Thursday.

'The wind blew and it burned a lot, I immediately started to remove it and this little mark was still there. My boyfriend was really burned because he spent more time [with the mark] than me,' Sousa told G1.

Father Ronney Galvão, who oversaw the Ash Wednesday celebration, said the cause of the burns is still a mystery, adding they don't yet know how many parishioners were injured by the strange ashes.

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[Smokin Joe]

Put a little of the ash in water and check the pH.

Lye (made by leaching from hardwood ashes) would produce these results, as would a number of other chemicals.

If the ashes got wet in a container, then dried out, the ashes near the bottom would be likely to contain more lye.

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Put a little of the ash in water and check the pH.

Lye (made by leaching from hardwood ashes) would produce these results, as would a number of other chemicals.

If the ashes got wet in a container, then dried out, the ashes near the bottom would be likely to contain more lye.

That is exactly what happened. They were using toxic ash.

[MeganC]

Vampires also react poorly to holy items.

[DefiantMassRINO]

That's one way for organized crime to dispose of toxic waste.  No one would ever suspect it.