The Presentation of the Lord, Our Lady of Purification or Our Lady of Candelaria: "serving as instructed by the Mosaic law, at the forty days of his birth, Jesus was presented at the temple, at the same time that His mother realized the ceremony of purification."
Celebrate today: Cande, Candela, Candelaria, Candy.
View moreIn Prato, in Tuscany, saint Catalina de'Ricci, Virgin, of the third order Regular of Saint Domingo, who was devoted fully to the restoration of religion and for his assiduous meditation of the mysteries of the passion of Jesus Christ, got to experience it in some way.
In Orleans, the Gallia Lugdunensis, St. Floscules, Bishop (c. 500).
In Hanoi, in Tonquin, saint Juan Teófano Vénard, priest of the society of foreign missions of Paris and martyr, after spending six years of Ministry work in secrecy and amid great difficulties, agreed with cheerful mood, time of Emperor Tu Duc, being locked in a cave and then slain.
In Canterbury, England, saint Lorenzo, Bishop, that governed this Church after Augustine and waxed great, even it to convert to the faith to King Edbaldo.