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See also:CANDLEMAS (See also:Lat. festum candelarum live luminum) , the name for the See also: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, in See also:commemoration of the presentation of See also:Christ in the See also:Temple. In the See also: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," i.e. with
See also:Simeon and See also:Anna), in the See also:West as the See also:Purification of the Blessed Virgin. It is the most ancient of all the festivals in See also:honour of the Virgin See also:Mary. A description is given of its celebration at See also:Jerusalem in the Peregrinatio of Etheria (Silvia), in the second See also:half of the 4th See also:century. It was then kept on the 14th of February, See also:forty days after See also:Epiphany, the celebration of the Nativity (See also:Christmas) not having been as yet introduced; the Armenians still keep it on this See also:day, as " the Coming of the Son of See also: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 See also:Roman See also: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 of Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which has led some to suppose that it was ordained by See also:Pope See also:Gelasius I. in 492 as a See also:counter-attraction to the See also:heathen See also:Lupercalia; but for this there is no See also:warrant. The procession on this day was introduced by Pope See also:Sergius I. (687-701). The See also:custom of blessing the candles for the whole See also:year on this day, whence the name Candlemas is derived, did not come into See also:common use until the rrth century.
In the Quadragesimae de Epiphania as described by Etheria there is, as See also:Monsignor See also:Duchesne points out (See also:Christian See also:Worship, p. 272), no indication of a See also: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.
See L. Duchesne, Christian Worship (Eng. trans., See also:London, 1904) ; See also:art. s.v. by F. G. Holweck in the See also:Catholic See also:Encyclopaedia.
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