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Candlemas

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This led to an annual fair which coincided with the busiest pilgrimage season, the time around Candlemas.
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Originally the Candlemas festival involved symbolically placing candles in the ground and in windows to prepare the earth for the arrival of spring.
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Tradition held that winter wasn't over if Candlemas was sunny enough to cast shadows, but a cloudy, shadow-free day meant spring had sprung.
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The next morning the villagers attend church to commemorate Candlemas.
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Whenever a storm came along and the sky flashed with lightning and rumble with thunder, his grandmother would take out and light a candle blessed at Candlemas.
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But another source of brightness was also closely associated with Candlemas: snowdrops.
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The scene depicts the events celebrated by Candlemas, which falls today.
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Her father settled land worth fifty marks clear per annum upon the couple and their issue before Candlemas, 1453.
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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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She was arrested at a Candlemas celebration and convicted of harbouring a priest leading to her execution.
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