Catholic families celebrate Candlemas Day by bringing the image of Baby Jesus to the church along with candles and rosemary.

According to superstition, if Phil comes out of his burrow on Groundhog Day and sees his shadow, it will scare him enough ...

Groundhog Day is this weekend and on Sunday, Punxsutawney Phil will make his unofficial prediction on whether winter will continue or if spring will come early.

Candlemas Day, or the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord ... the custom of blessing and distributing candles in procession before the celebration of Holy Mass. It was the Syriac Pope Sergius I (687 ...

Candlemas’ roots are steeped in pre-Christian ... In Britain, it became known as Lammas, or “Loaf-Mass Day.” The celebration involved farmers’ wives who would bring the first loaves ...

Historians today tell us that the ancient Celts arrived at the shores of Britain around 1,000 BC and lived there during the Iron Age, the Roman Age and the post Roman era. Living on an island with ...

The Three Kings brought expensive classic gifts because they thought they would meet a king or potentate, which of course ...