Candlemas
BBC - Wiltshire Weather - It's Groundhog Day - again!The early settlers in Pennsylvania decided that if the sun shone on Candlemas Day then a wise animal such as the groundhog would see its own shadow and hurry back to its burrow for another six weeks of winter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/weather/groundhog.shtml
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Candlemas
Candlemas - Also called: Purification of the Blessed Virgin (Greek Hypapante), Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. Observed 2 February in the Latin Rite.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03245b.htm
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