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Dia de la Candelaria leads today's complete edition for Hungary.
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The Virgin of Candelaria is venerated across northern Chile, especially in the mining towns where faith is the only thing stronger than the desert. Processions carry her through streets lined with copihues and copper dust. The miners pray to her before every shift and she has never let them down.
In some Hungarian villages, this is the day candles are blessed in church and brought home to protect against storms. The blessed candle is lit during thunderstorms, and the belief is that lightning will not strike a house with a blessed candle burning. The statistician says otherwise. The grandmother says try it and see.