Candlemas - February 2 At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to …

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Candlemas - February 2
At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her journal, discovered in 1887, gives an unprecedented glimpse of liturgical life there. Among the celebrations she describes is the Epiphany, the observance of Christ’s birth, and the gala procession in honor of his Presentation in the Temple 40 days later. Under the Mosaic Law, a woman was ritually “unclean” for 40 days after childbirth, when she was to present herself to the priests and offer sacrifice—her “purification.” Contact with anyone who had brushed against mystery—birth or death—excluded a person from Jewish worship. This feast emphasizes Jesus’ first appearance in the Temple more than Mary’s purification.
The observance spread throughout the Western Church in the fifth and sixth centuries. Because the Church in the West celebrated Jesus’ birth on December 25, the Presentation was moved to February 2, 40 days after Christmas.
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Candlemas - February 2
Also known as
Our Lady of the Candles
Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple
Presentation of the Lord
Purification of the Blessed Virgin
Candelas (Spanish)
Candelora (Italian)
Chandeleur (French)
Hromnice (Feast of Candles among the Slovaks and Czechs)
Lichtmess (German)
Stretenije Gospoda (Meeting of the Lord by the Slavs of the Eastern Rite)
Svijetlo Marijino (Light Feast of Mary in Yugoslavia)
Memorial
2 February
About the Feast
The feast commemorates the purifying of the Blessed Virgin according to the Mosaic Law, 40 days after the birth of Christ, and the presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple. The feast was introduced into the Eastern Empire by Emperor Justinian I, and is mentioned in the Western Church in the Gelasian Sacramentary of the 7th century. Candles are blessed on that day in commemoration of the words of Holy Simeon concerning Christ “a light to the revelation of the Gentiles” (Luke 2), and a procession with lighted candles is held in the church to represent the entry of Christ, the Light of the World, into the Temple of Jerusalem. “Candlemas” is still the name in Scotland for a legal term-day on which interest and rents are payable (2 February).
Patronage
candle makers
wax refiners
Naxos–Andros–Tinos–Mykonos, Greece, archdiocese of
in the Philippines
Jaro
Western Visayas

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Presentation of the Lord (Feast)
Our Lady of Candelaria
Our Lady of Good of Coromoto
Our Lady of Good Success
Santa María de Santa Anita
World Day for Consecrated Life
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Adalbald of Ostrevant
Adeloga of Kitzingen
Agathodoros of Tyana
Andrea Carlo Ferrari
Apronian the Executioner
Bernard of Corbara
Burchard of Wurzburg
Catherine del Ricci
Colomba Osorio
Columbanus of Ghent
Feock
Flosculus of Orléans
Giovanni Battista Clemente Saggio
Jean Theophane Venard
Jeanne de Lestonnac
Lawrence of Canterbury
Louis Alexander Alphonse Brisson
Maria Domenica Mantovani
Maria Katharina Kasper
Mun
Peter Cambiano
Sicharia of Orleans
Simon of Cassia Fidati
Stephen Bellesini
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Martyrs of Ebsdorf includes…
Abclasta of Ebsdorf
Bruno of Saxony
Marquard of Hildesheim
Osdag of Ebsdorf
Theodoric of Ninden
Martyrs of Rome (- 28 saints)
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Clara Anna Skibowska
Maria Schröter
Rosalia Angrick

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