tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post6093845040584655633..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: A Candlemas Carol: 'The queen of bliss and of beauty'Clerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-73541249568371037972014-02-07T14:08:58.546+00:002014-02-07T14:08:58.546+00:00To resume and extend the recent discussions in the...To resume and extend the recent discussions in the 'Comments' to other posts (including the immediately preceding one), I see that Frederick Holweck, writing of "Candlemas" in the Catholic Encyclopedia in 1908, says, "In the Middle Ages it had an octave in the larger number of dioceses; also today the religious orders whose special object is the veneration of the Mother of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com