[Answer] What annual event originated from the tradition of Candlemas?

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...1. Christmas 2. Valentine's Day 3. Lent 4. Groundhog Day

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Groundhog Day - Groundhog Day has been celebrated since February 2, 1887 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. But the event has roots that date much farther back. Ancient Christian clergy used to bless and distribute candles for the winter, which represented how long and cold the winter would be. It was the Germans who evolved this practice into selecting an animal as their means of predicting the weather — only it was a hedgehog that was the original seasonal sage. When German immigrants settled in the U.S. they brought this quirky tradition with them, but hedgehogs aren't native to North America. The animal of choice became the similar groundhog, and we've been curiously shadow-watching some sort of Punxsutawney Phil ever since.:

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