Month: February 2019
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Candlemas, Demotically “Groundhog Day”
Tintoretto, Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, 1550-1555, Gallerie dell Accademi, Venice From Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, 1869: From a very early, indeed unknown date in the Christian history, the 2nd of February has been held as the festival of the Purification of the Virgin, and it is still a holiday of the…