Candlemas
2 February 2026 — A small light in the winter night – may your home be calm and warm.
Candlemas (Italian: Candelora, from Latin candela, “candle”) is the Christian feast of the Presentation of the Lord, kept on 2 February, forty days after Christmas. The Gospel of Luke tells how Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the Temple, where the elder Simeon called him a “light for the nations”. From this comes the custom of blessing candles in church; believers often keep them at home through the year. In Italy the day is tied to a folk saying: if the weather is clear and sunny on Candelora, winter will last longer, while rain or gloom means its end is near. The feast falls roughly halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, which is why it has long been seen as a turning point of the cold season. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church also keeps it as the Meeting of the Lord on 2 February: it follows the Revised Julian calendar, whose fixed feasts coincide in date with the Gregorian calendar.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver figure made of luminous dots and fine lines, like a constellation: a single slender candle with a gentle flame, drifting slowly across the night sky
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