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Candlemas is celebrated on February 2nd. Historically it is the end of the Christmas season. In the modern Roman Catholic Church the celebration is referred to by the event that memorializes it: The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. It is a celebration of the Jewish tradition of Christ's mother presenting the infant at the temple.

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