{"id":1887,"date":"2022-02-02T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2022-01-26T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:12:16","slug":"la-chandeleur-2-february-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/02\/02\/la-chandeleur-2-february-2\/","title":{"rendered":"La Chandeleur 2 February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/01\/ch3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/01\/ch3-1.jpg 346w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/01\/ch3-1-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 85vw, 346px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In France and Belgium, cr\u00eapes are traditionally served on\u00a0La Chandeleur (Candlemas).<br><br>This day was originally Virgin Mary&#8217;s Blessing Day but became known in France as &#8220;Le Jour des Cr\u00eapes&#8221; (&#8220;The Day of the Cr\u00eapes&#8221;), referring to the tradition of offering cr\u00eapes. The tradition dates back to 472, when Pope Gelasius I offered cr\u00eapes to French pilgrims who were visiting Rome to celebrating the Chandeleur.<br><br>Also, the belief is that catching the cr\u00eape with a frying pan after tossing it in the air with your right hand while holding a gold coin in your left hand would cause you to become rich that year. The roundness and golden colour of a cr\u00eape resemble the sun and its rays, hinting at the change in the weather that Candlemas would bring, falling at the mid-point between the winter solstice and spring equinox.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/01\/ch2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/01\/ch2-1.jpg 333w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/01\/ch2-1-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 85vw, 333px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In France and Belgium, cr\u00eapes are traditionally served on\u00a0La Chandeleur (Candlemas). This day was originally Virgin Mary&#8217;s Blessing Day but became known in France as &#8220;Le Jour des Cr\u00eapes&#8221; (&#8220;The Day of the Cr\u00eapes&#8221;), referring to the tradition of offering cr\u00eapes. The tradition dates back to 472, when Pope Gelasius I offered cr\u00eapes to French &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/02\/02\/la-chandeleur-2-february-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;La Chandeleur 2 February&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}