People run from a bull during the annual Candlemas celebrations in Tlacotalpan, Mexico in 2011. A pack of bulls is let loose to rampage through the streets for hours as crowds taunt them as part of ...

February 2nd has had special significance since ancient times: celebrated as Imbolc by the Celts, and more recently as Candlemas by Christians, it’s also commonly known as Groundhog Day. Although the ...

Candlemas arrives at that quiet hinge in the year when winter still holds the land, but the light has already begun its slow return. If you’ve ever stepped outside in early February and felt the sun ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Hispanics, Candlemas is the natural continuation of the December celebrations. Whoever finds the figurine in the Rosca de ...

People carry Baby Jesus' at Candelaria neighborhood in Mexico City, during Candlemas Day (Dia de la Candelaria), Feb. 2, 2012. Getty Images Friday marks the Christian holiday Candlemas, or Día de La ...

While many people know the date as Groundhog Day, the celebration of Feb. 2 in the Catholic Church began far earlier than 1887, the year people across the United States started looking for a woodchuck ...

On this day we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, the Purification of the Virgin Mary, Candlemas. "Why do we in this feast carry candles? Because the Gentiles dedicated the month of ...

If this sentiment seems familiar to you it is because it is very close to what is said about its secular counterpart, Groundhog Day, also celebrated Feb. 2. The Catholics of long ago had it down pat ...

These striking images show Canon Michael Gisbourne putting the finishing touches to a display of candles in the shape of King Charles’s monogram on the floor of Ripon Cathedral, in North Yorkshire. A ...

For Hispanics, Candlemas is the natural continuation of the December celebrations. Whoever finds the figurine in the Rosca de Reyes (Three Kings' Bread) is then obligated to share tamales on Feb. 2, a ...