Ah. THanks Padre. Yep I caught your 11th c. thing so it couldn't be the same in both.

Here's the Orthodox America take. Each country is essentially independant.

This feast, celebrated on February 2, is known in the Orthodox Church as The Presentation of Christ in the Temple. Another name for the feast is The Meeting of our Lord. Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians call the feast, The Purification of the Holy Virgin. About 450 AD in Jerusalem, people began the custom of holding lighted candles during the Divine Liturgy of this feast day. Therefore, some churches in the West refer to this holy day as Candlemas. The Feast of the Presentation concludes the observances related to the Nativity of Christ, a period that opened on November 15 with the beginning of the Nativity fast.

Jospeh and Mary were not wealthy, so they took two turtle doves with them to offer as a sacrifice at the Temple.
Biblical Story

The story of the Presentation is told in Luke 2:22-29.
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This is one of those fun cases where the Orth calendar is solar.
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Jeanie, thanx. I have a number of such sayings/predictions as printed by the Opies but not that one.