From serene pagodas and bustling markets to golden sunsets over rivers and ancient temples, this visual journey captures the ...

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This February 2nd, take a moment to say this prayer to Our Lady of Candelaria, asking her to light your path and protect you ...

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It’s healthy to change. Nowadays we celebrate that transformation with more candles on a cake. How was this done in our ancient past?

That range of titles offers a lot of potential themes for a commentator: blessing (of candles for the year); a Temple epiphany ... but the term is not alien, despite its ancient origin; for many ...

Candlemas was then called the Hypapante or 'Meeting', referring to the meeting of the infant Jesus with the aged Simeon and the holy widow Anna, daughter of Phanuel, in the Temple as described ...

The blessing of the candles during Candlemas, or Candelora, as we say in Italian (Image created with DALL-E 2) While firmly grounded in Christian tradition, the Candelora also bears connections to ...

The main building structure along the central axis of the Grand Temple comprises four painstakingly laid out courtyards ...