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The modern Biblical canon does not record Mary's birth. The earliest known account of Mary's birth is found in the Gospel of James (5:2), an apocryphal text from the late second century, with her parents known as Saint Anne and Saint Joachim. [2] In the case of saints, the Church commemorates their date of death, with Saint John the Baptist and ...
Mary's special position within God's purpose of salvation as "God-bearer" is recognized in a number of ways by some Anglican Christians. [184] All the member churches of the Anglican Communion affirm in the historic creeds that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, and celebrates the feast days of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
The Eastern Church first celebrated a Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy and All Pure Mother of God on 9 December, perhaps as early as the 5th century in Syria.The original title of the feast focused more specifically on Saint Anne, being termed Sylepsis tes hagias kai theoprometoros Annas ("conception of Saint Anne, the ancestress of God"). [5]
As it was thought that Mary was due no less honor than John the Baptist, it was believed that, like John, Mary must have been sanctified before birth. The feast was brought to Britain by Irish missionaries, [4] and was celebrated there by the 1030s. There developed a strong monastic cult of the Virgin Mary in England.
Anne, the mother of Mary, first appears in the 2nd-century apocryphal Gospel of James.The author of the gospel borrowed from Greek tales of the childhood of heroes. For Jesus' grandmother the author drew on the more benign biblical story of Hannah—hence Anna—who conceived Samuel in her old age, thus reprising the miraculous birth of Jesus with a merely remarkable one for his mother. [14]
The day commemorates the tradition of archangel Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would give birth to the Christ. It is celebrated on 25 March each year. In the Catholic Church's Latin liturgical rites, when 25 March falls during Holy Week or Easter week, it is transferred forward to the first suitable day during Eastertide. [1]
For similar reasons another religious congregation with a similar name, the Society of Mary (Marists), though unrelated in its history, was to adopt the same patronal feast. A number of parishes and schools are dedicated in honor of the Holy Name of Mary. The cathedral of Hagåtña, Guam, is called the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica.
The 1969 revision of the liturgical year and the calendar in the Roman Rite states: “1 January, the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord, is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, and also the commemoration of the conferral of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.” [18] [19] It deleted the 11 October feast, even for Portugal, stating ...