The Tudor Society
  • Happy Candlemas

    The presentation of the Lord in the temple by Fra Bartolomeo, 1516

    Happy Candlemas!
    Yes, today is Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, and the feast that once marked the true end of Christmas.
    Blessed candles, weather prophecies, guild pageants… and why the Tudors kept their decorations up until Candlemas Eve, and what happened if they left them up longer!…

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