Candlemas is a Christian holy day on February 2nd. It marks the day, forty days after Christmas, when Mary brought the baby Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem — so it is about a mother's return to normal life and a child being shown to God. The name comes from the church custom of blessing on this day all the candles the church will use for the coming year, and of carrying lit candles in a procession. In Britain it also works as a date marker in the old calendar, roughly the middle point between winter and spring, and there are country sayings about the weather on Candlemas telling you how long winter will last. That same idea travelled to North America and became Groundhog Day, which falls on the very same date. It is capitalised, like Christmas and Easter. Outside church circles, older people in Britain and Ireland know the word better than young people do; many English speakers today have simply never heard it. For a Taiwanese student, the useful thing is not the ceremony but the shape of the word: -mas at the end of a day-name means it is a church feast day, the same -mas that is hiding at the end of Christmas.

聖燭節（２月２日，紀念聖母獻耶穌於聖殿並祝福整年用的蠟燭）。天主教在台灣稱「獻主節」或「聖母獻耶穌於聖殿慶日」。