Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was a Catholic Feast that was originally celebrated in Spain, but started to be celebrated in other Catholic countries.[1]
The feast owes its origin to the bishops of the tenth Council of Toledo, in 656.[2] The accompanying of the expectant mother of Jesus became a prominent theme that spread throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Italy during the Middle Ages.[3] It is celebrated on December 18.
See also
References
- ^
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Guéranger, O.S.B., Prosper Louis Paschal. The Liturgical Year, Vol. 1, Advent. (Trans. by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.), Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1948, pp. 488-90
- ^ Manalo, Ricky. "Deepening Advent, Widening the Circle: Celebrating Las Posadas and Simbang Gabi", Pastoral Liturgy
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