Candlemas

Candlemas is the last festival in the Christian year that is dated by reference to Christmas; subsequent holidays are calculated with reference to Easter, so Candlemas marks the end of the Christmas and Epiphany season.

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:"Down with the rosemary, and so

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:Down with the bays and misletoe ;

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:Down with the holly, ivy, all,

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:Wherewith ye dress'd the Christmas Hall"

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:::— Robert Herrick (1591-1674), "Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve"

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Christmas: Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. According to the Christian gospels, Jesus was born to Mary in Bethlehem, where she and her husband Joseph had traveled to register in the Roman cens...

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