Assertion: candle | /r/HasProperty | blessed on this day
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text: so it is fitting that candles are blessed on this day and that a candle-lit procession precedes the mass.
text: The Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, known as Candlemas, because on this day the candles for the whole year are blessed, was established according to some authorities by Pope Gelasius I about 492.