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FESTIVALS. CANDLEMAS.
Candlemas day, the 2nd of February, used to be held in the old pagan times as a kind of saturnalia, with dances and torches and108 many unholy rites. But these gave occasion to so much ill conduct that in the ninth century the Pope abolished the festival, and substituted for it the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, when candles were lit in her honour. Hence the name of Candlemas.
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