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Double of the Second Class with a Simple Octave.
White Vestments.
The Church of The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tschagguns, Austria.
Tschagguns is a community in the Montafon Valley, Austria.
It is situated in the Westernmost federal state of Vorarlberg, Austria.
Tschagguns ist eine Marktgemeinde in der Region Montafon im Bundesland Vorarlberg im äußersten Westen Österreichs. Im Bild: Pfarrkirche Unsere Liebe Frau Mariä Geburt.
Author: Nikater
Photo: August 2011.
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The Nativity of Mary, or Birth of the Virgin Mary, refers to the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary by her parents Saint Anne and Saint Joachim.
Tradition celebrates the event as a liturgical Feast in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and in most Anglican liturgical calendars on 8 September, nine months after the solemnity of her Immaculate Conception, celebrated on 8 December.
The Eastern Orthodox equivalent, The Nativity of the Theotokos, pertains to the birth of the Virgin Mary in the Orthodox perspective.
This Feast, like that of the Assumption of Mary, originated in Jerusalem. It began in the 5th-Century as the Feast of the Basilica Sanctae Mariae ubi nata est, now called the Basilica of Saint Anne.
This Feast, like that of the Assumption of Mary, originated in Jerusalem. It began in the 5th-Century as the Feast of the Basilica Sanctae Mariae ubi nata est, now called the Basilica of Saint Anne.
In the 7th-Century, the Feast was celebrated by the Byzantines and at Rome as the Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Feast is also celebrated by Syrian Christians on 8 September and by Coptic Christians on 9 May (1 Bashans).
The Feast is also included in the Tridentine Calendar for 8 September.
The Feast is also included in the Tridentine Calendar for 8 September.
The Church of The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
in the Borough of Media, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Author: Smallbones
Photo: December 2010.
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The scene was frequently depicted in art, as part of cycles of the Life of the Virgin. Late-Mediaeval depictions are often valuable records of domestic interiors and their fittings - at this period the setting was often in a wealthy household.
Apostolic tradition places Mary's birthplace either in the Church of Saint Anne in Jerusalem, or in Tzippori, Israel, where Saint Anne once lived.
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary.
Magyar: A mezőkovácsházi római katolikus templom. Épült 1878–79-ben.
Author: Burrows
Photo: August 2009.
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This very ancient Feast was already solemnised in the 7th-Century, and Pope Innocent IV, to fulfil the vow made by the Cardinals before the election of his predecessor, Pope Celestine IV, gave it an Octave at the First Council of Lyons in 1245.
This date, September 8, served to fix that of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December.
Mary is inseparable from Jesus in the Divine Plan, wherefore the Liturgy applies to her what Holy Scripture says of the eternal Wisdom which is the Word "by whom all was made".
Like Christ, the Virgin presides over the whole work of creation, for, having been chosen of all eternity to give us the Saviour, it is she, with her Son, whom God had chiefly in view when He created the world.
Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
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