Various role players take part in the village's traditional Candlemas festival. Sebastian Willnow/dpa Costumed residents of the eastern German village of Spergau took to the streets on Sunday to drive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Hispanics, Candlemas is the natural continuation of the December celebrations. Whoever finds the figurine in the Rosca de ...

Rooted in early Christian tradition, Candlemas marks the presentation of Jesus and purification of the Virgin Mary at Herod's Temple in Jerusalem. Church members take part in the Candlemas Festal ...

Candlemas arrives at that quiet hinge in the year when winter still holds the land, but the light has already begun its slow return. If you’ve ever stepped outside in early February and felt the sun ...

While many people know the date as Groundhog Day, the celebration of Feb. 2 in the Catholic Church began far earlier than 1887, the year people across the United States started looking for a woodchuck ...

Rev Dr Emma Pennington is the cathedral's Canon Missioner Canterbury Cathedral will mark the end of its Christmas season this weekend with a Christingle service for Candlemas. From November until the ...

AMONG Christian festivals, Candlemas is one of the oldest on record, with references going all the way back to the fourth century. But when does the date fall, what is the biblical story behind it and ...

Orthodox believers celebrate Candlemas on February 15, one of the twelve feasts of the church calendar, which has long been associated with weather signs, prohibitions and special traditions in Russia ...

The Christian holiday Candlemas, or Día de La Candelaria, which is annually celebrated 40 days after Christmas, falls on Wednesday this year. This ancient festival, marked annually on Feb. 2, denotes ...

Hundreds of plaster Baby Jesus figurines are scattered around scores of stalls in the Niños Dios market of Mexico's capital, where many of the city's Catholic faithful go early each year for help in ...