"Candlemas Day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of sight of the house, though, when the mother and children, every one of them laughing and talking as if it were Christmas or Candlemas day, ...
— The Story-teller • Maud Lindsay
... people of all ranks conceived the happy idea of celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Pius the Ninth's first communion. This afforded another great occasion for uniting in prayer all over the wide extent of the Catholic Church. The fete occurred on the 2nd of February, "Candlemas day," or the purification of the Blessed Virgin. The Holy Father was able, all exhausted as he was, to leave his couch, celebrate Mass, and even repair to the throne-room of the Vatican, where he performed the ceremony of ...
— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell |
