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Festivals of Western Europe: Festivals: 6. Festivals of L...

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NEITJORSDAG (New Year's Day) January 1 New Year's Day is a time for exchanging greetings and congratulations and visiting family and friends. Parents and relatives customarily give children gifts of money on the first day of the year. LICHTMESDAG (Candlemas), in Luxembourg-Ville, canton Luxembourg February 2 Candlemas, the festival commemorating the Purification of the Virgin Mary on the fortieth day after Jesus' birth and the Presentation of her Son at the Temple, gets its name from the custom…