| What I never knew until now is that February 3, the day after Candlemas, is the Feast of St Blaise, the patron saint of wool combers. |
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| The Candlemas collection will take place on Saturday and Sunday, February 2 and 3, in St Manman's Church. |
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| Until relatively recently, Candlemas marked the traditional end of Christmastide. |
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| The theme of misrule in Twelfth Night was apt for the Candlemas performance. |
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| They resumed on Candlemas, and concluded with a masque presented before the Queen at Whitehall at Shrovetide. |
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| This day, which as a child, I called Candlemas, was a religious holiday dedicated to a well-connected infant. |
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| These days, the equivalent dates in Scotland are Martinmas, Candlemas, Whitsunday and Lammas. |
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| It was said that if the weather was fair on the mid-winter feast day of Candlemas then winter would return in force. |
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| The day of the coronation was appointed for the day January 29, during the feast of Candlemas. |
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| Today modern neopagans either celebrate it on the 1st or 2nd, the 2nd being more popular in America, perhaps because of a confusion with Candlemas. |
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| During Candlemas ceremonies, church-goers bring candles to church, where the flame is blessed and represents good will and luck in the coming year. |
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| The mother, usually veiled, carried the candle blessed at Candlemas and waited penitently for the priest at the vestibule of the church with her husband and female companions. |
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| Mr Allen's sermon was on the feast of Candlemas, which fell on Sunday. |
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| Candlemas originally fell on 2 February, the day of the feast of the Purification, or the Presentation of Christ. |
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| It was a form danced by itinerant ploughboys in sets of three or four, about the time of Candlemas. |
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| The academic year at St Andrews is divided into two semesters, Martinmas and Candlemas, named after two of the four Scottish Term and Quarter Days. |
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| The academic year is divided into two terms, Martinmas and Candlemas. |
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| The northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands form the Traversay Islands and Candlemas Islands groups, while the southernmost make up Southern Thule. |
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| Nelson Channel is the passage between Candlemas and Vindication Island. |
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