Candlemas

How To Use Candlemas In A Sentence

• 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.
• The day of the coronation was appointed for the day January 29, during the feast of Candlemas.
• The origin of Groundhog Day is derived from earlier celebrations held on the cross-quarter day of February 2, dates variously known as Brigid's Night in Ireland (festival of the Celtic goddess of poetry, birth, weddings, smithcraft, and healing), Oimelc / Imbolc / Imbolg in Scotland, and Candlemas in England. UUpdates - All updates
• If this trend continues, Christmas may go the way of Candlemas, Childermas, and Michaelmas for many Christian groups.
• Allhallowtide and continued it until Candlemas; during which any man was permitted to stay three days, without being asked whence he came or what he was. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
• It is always sad taking down the Christmas decorations....but this year I am keping up the Crib until Candlemas. Auntie joanna writes
• The font, the church, the altar and the pulpit were all consecrated in turn and the ceremony ended with a Candlemass procession.
• He was invested on Saturday 24 December, and resigned on Candlemas - Thursday 2 February.