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Candlemas-day, a festival appointed by the Church to be observed on the second day of February in every year, in honour of the purification of the Virgin Mary; so called from the processions with lighted candles, and consecration of candles on that day for the service of the ensuing year. In some parts of the country agricultural tenancies date from this day.