And with Candlemasday ends all festivity connected with Christ-tide.
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On the other hand CandlemasDay has been part of Irish heritage since before time.
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He remembered the day well because it was Candlemasday, and this was the anniversary.
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One is of his wanting to go to church at Ely Abbey one cold CandlemasDay.
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It is yet marked in the almanacs as CandlemasDay, or the Purification of the Virgin Mary.
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CandlemasDay is February 2nd.
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Today is CandlemasDay.
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And they fought strenuously on Candlemasday against their lord, and took him; for his men forsook him and fled.
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On CandlemasDay, (February 2d) 962 A.D., the grateful pope crowned him Roman emperor.
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Now, so heaven help me, I shall be in the field upon CandlemasDay at the jousts, whatsoever come of it.
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These lords beginning their rule on Alhollon eve, continued the same till the morrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called Candlemasday.
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Orders were issued by council, that candles should no longer be carried about on Candlemasday, ashes on Ash Wednesday, palms on Palm Sunday.
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"From just before Candlemasday to Easter of the year 1700," wrote Saint-Simon, "nothing was heard of but balls and pleasures of the Court.