Candlemas - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: candlemasCandlemas-day
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....
Candlemas
The second day of February on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day...
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
Halimass, or Hallamass
Halimass, or Hallamass, the feast of all Saints,on the 1st of November; one of the cross quartersof the year was computed from Halimass to Candlemas, Cowel....
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