{"id":2562,"date":"2023-02-02T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:58:23","slug":"la-chandeleur-2-february-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2023\/02\/02\/la-chandeleur-2-february-3\/","title":{"rendered":"La Chandeleur 2 February"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In France and Belgium, 2 February is a day often dedicated to the making and eating of cr\u00eapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Religiously, this day is known in the Christian faith as La Chandeleur or Candlemass, marking the day that Jesus was presented at the temple in Jerusalem and takes its name from the Christian tradition of bringing candles to the Church to be blessed on this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, before becoming a religious holiday, this date was in fact a pagan celebration in honour of the Earth\u2019s fertility and the end of winter. With a cr\u00eape\u2019s shape and colour inspiring thoughts of sunshine and the brighter days ahead, it is only natural for the consumption of such a food to be a significant part of the celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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La Chandeleur<\/em> is also a very superstitious day for the French. In order to foresee financial luck, one tradition states you should hold a coin in one hand and flip the cr\u00eape in another. If you flip the cr\u00eape without it falling on the floor, you will receive prosperity during the year. <\/p>\n\n\n

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In France and Belgium, 2 February is a day often dedicated to the making and eating of cr\u00eapes. Religiously, this day is known in the Christian faith as La Chandeleur or Candlemass, marking the day that Jesus was presented at the temple in Jerusalem and takes its name from the Christian tradition of bringing candles … Continue reading “La Chandeleur 2 February”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":2565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","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\/2562","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=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}