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

  1. ↑  "Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Manalo, Ricky. "Deepening Advent, Widening the Circle: Celebrating Las Posadas and Simbang Gabi", Pastoral Liturgy
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