How To Use Candlemas In A Sentence
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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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The day of the coronation was appointed for the day January 29, during the feast of Candlemas.
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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.
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If this trend continues, Christmas may go the way of Candlemas, Childermas, and Michaelmas for many Christian groups.
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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
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It is always sad taking down the Christmas decorations....but this year I am keping up the Crib until Candlemas.
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The font, the church, the altar and the pulpit were all consecrated in turn and the ceremony ended with a Candlemass procession.
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He was invested on Saturday 24 December, and resigned on Candlemas - Thursday 2 February.