See also:

• CANDLEMAS (Lat. festum candelarum live luminum)

CANDLEMAS (See also:

• LAT

Lat. festum candelarum live luminum)  , the name for the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church festival, celebrated annually on the and of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February, in See also:

• COMMEMORATION

commemoration of the presentation of See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ in the See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

Temple . In the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Church it is known as "Puaira.vrq rov Kvpi.ov (" the See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting of the See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord," i.e. with See also:

• SIMEON
• SIMEON (or SYMEON) OF DURHAM (d. after 1129)
• SIMEON, JOSEPH JEROME, COMTE (1749–1842)

Simeon and See also:

• ANNA
• ANNA (Hindustani ana)
• ANNA, BALDASARRE

Anna), in the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West as the See also:

• PURIFICATION

Purification of the Blessed Virgin . It is the most ancient of all the festivals in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of the Virgin See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary . A description is given of its celebration at See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem in the Peregrinatio of Etheria (Silvia), in the second See also:

• HALF

half of the 4th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . It was then kept on the 14th of February, See also:

• FORTY

forty days after See also:

• EPIPHANY, FEAST OF

Epiphany, the celebration of the Nativity (See also:

• CHRISTMAS (i.e. the Mass of Christ)

Christmas) not having been as yet introduced; the Armenians still keep it on this See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, as " the Coming of the Son of See also:

• GOD

God into the Temple." The celebration gradually spread to other parts of the, church, being moved to the and of February, forty days after the newly established feast of Christmas . In 542 it was established throughout the entire See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• EMPIRE

empire by Justinian . Its introduction in the West is somewhat obscure . The 8th-century Gelasian Sacramentary, which embodies a much older tradition, mentions it under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which has led some to suppose that it was ordained by See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope See also:

• GELASIUS

Gelasius I. in 492 as a See also:

• COUNTER

counter-attraction to the See also:

• HEATHEN

heathen See also:

• LUPERCALIA

Lupercalia; but for this there is no See also:

• WARRANT (Med. Lat. warantum; O. Fr. garant, warant, derived from O.H.G. root represented in modern German bygewdhren)

warrant . The procession on this day was introduced by Pope See also:

• SERGIUS, ST

Sergius I . (687-701) . The See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom of blessing the candles for the whole See also:

• YEAR

year on this day, whence the name See also:

• CANDLEMAS (Lat. festum candelarum live luminum)

Candlemas is derived, did not come into See also:

• COMMON

common use until the rrth century . In the Quadragesimae de Epiphania as described by Etheria there is, as See also:

• MONSIGNOR (It. monsignore, my lord)

Monsignor See also:

• DUCHESNE, LOUIS MARIE OLIVIER (1843– )

Duchesne points out (See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

Worship, p .

272), no indication of a See also:

• SPECIAL

special association with the Blessed Virgin; and the distinction between the festival as celebrated in the East and West is that in the former it is a festival of Christ, in the latter a festival pre-eminently of the Virgin See also:

• MOTHER

Mother . See L . Duchesne, Christian Worship (Eng. trans., See also:

• LONDON

London, 1904) ; See also:

• ART

art. s.v. by F . G . Holweck in the See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Encyclopaedia .