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"Visitation" with donor portrait, from Altarpiece of the Virgin (St Vaast Altarpiece) by Jacques Daret, c. 1435 (Staatliche Museen, Berlin). In Christianity, the Visitation, also known as the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, refers to the visit of Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, to Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist, in the Gospel of Luke, Luke 1:39–56.
In the spring of 1784, The Prince of Wales begged Mary Hamilton's uncle to invite her to attend a royal ball at Carlton house, to which Lady Stormont was also invited.On the day of the ball, 10 March, Hamilton wrote in her diary that her cousin Lady Stormont had invited her stepdaughter Lady Elizabeth, Elizabeth was also present when Lady Stormont picked up Hamilton on the way to the ball in ...
Lady Mary Russell. Shutterstock Lady Mary Russell was one of Queen Elizabeth II‘s maids of honor at her 1953 coronation, and she died on September 18 — just one day before Her Majesty’s ...
The Bible does not give a precise location for the home of Elizabeth and Zechariah, stating only that Mary went to "a town in the hill country of Judea" (Luke 1:39).One tradition attributes the construction of the first church of Ein Karem to Empress Helena of Constantinople, Constantine I's mother, who identified the site as the home of John's father, Zechariah.
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Bliss Dandridge (née Taylor; April 20, 1824 – July 25, 1909) was the youngest of the three surviving daughters of President Zachary Taylor and Margaret Smith. In 1848, after her father was elected president, Mary Elizabeth married William Wallace Smith Bliss , an army officer who had served with her father.
Queen Mary appears as a main character in Rosamund Gravelle's debut play Three Queens, [6] [7] and first played by Becky Black. Set in 1554 the play is about a fictional encounter between Queen Mary I of England, Lady Jane Grey, and Princess Elizabeth Tudor, brought together by their cousin, Cardinal Reginald Pole, the night before Lady Jane Grey is due to be executed.
Several venerated images of Jesus Christ and Saint Joseph have also been granted a pontifical coronation. [ a ] The pontifical decree of canonical coronation Qui Semper granted for the "Virgin of Hope of Triana" in Spain , legally imposing the venerated Marian image the Pontifical right to wear a crown by Pope John Paul II on 7 April 1983.
St. Mary's Assumption Church is a National Historic Landmark church at Constance and Josephine Streets in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.The church was completed in 1860, built for the swelling German Catholic immigrant population in the Lower Garden District section of the city (the church across the street, Saint Alphonsus Church, was built at the same time for the swelling Irish Catholic ...