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It is celebrated on 25 March each year.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>It is a principal <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneration_of_Mary_in_Roman_Catholicism" title="Veneration of Mary in Roman Catholicism">Marian</a> feast (although Catholic liturgical reform has highlighted that Annunciation is solemnity of the Lord instead of a Marian solemnity, changing its name from "Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary" to "Annunciation of the Lord"), classified as a <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solemnity" title="Solemnity">solemnity</a> in the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> Two examples in Catholicism of the importance attached to the Annunciation are the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus" title="Angelus">Angelus</a> prayer, and the event's position as the first <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary#Mysteries_of_the_Rosary" title="Rosary">Joyful Mystery</a> of the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary" title="Rosary">Rosary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cna_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cna-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p></p> <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Biblical_narrative"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biblical narrative</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <p></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Biblical_narrative">Biblical narrative</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feast_of_the_Annunciation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biblical narrative">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Here is recorded the "angelic salutation" of Gabriel to Mary, 'Hail, full of grace, the L<span class="smallcaps" style="font-size:83%">ORD</span> is with thee" (<i>Ave, gratia plena, Dominus tecum</i>; Luke 1: 28), and Mary's response to God's will, "Let it be done to me according to thy word" (<i>fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum</i>; v. 38). The "angelic salutation" is the origin of the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary" title="Hail Mary">Hail Mary</a> prayer and the Angelus; the second part of the prayer comes from the salutation of <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Elizabeth" title="Saint Elizabeth" class="mw-disambig">Saint Elizabeth</a> to Mary at the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitation_(Christianity)" title="Visitation (Christianity)">Visitation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feast_of_the_Annunciation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paolo_de_Matteis_-_The_Annunciation.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150329063008im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Paolo_de_Matteis_-_The_Annunciation.jpg/250px-Paolo_de_Matteis_-_The_Annunciation.jpg" width="250" height="287" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150329063008im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Paolo_de_Matteis_-_The_Annunciation.jpg/375px-Paolo_de_Matteis_-_The_Annunciation.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150329063008im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Paolo_de_Matteis_-_The_Annunciation.jpg/500px-Paolo_de_Matteis_-_The_Annunciation.jpg 2x" data-file-width="522" data-file-height="600"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paolo_de_Matteis_-_The_Annunciation.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <i>The Annunciation</i> by <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_de_Matteis" title="Paolo de Matteis">Paolo de Matteis</a>.</div> </div> </div> <p>The Feast of the Annunciation was celebrated as early as the fourth or fifth century.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup>The first certain mentions of the feast are in a <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law" title="Canon law">canon</a>, of the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Councils_of_Toledo" title="Councils of Toledo">Council of Toledo</a> in 656, where it was described as celebrated throughout the Church, and in another of the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Constantinople_(692)" title="Council of Constantinople (692)" class="mw-redirect">Council of Constantinople</a> "<a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinisext_Council" title="Quinisext Council">in Trullo</a>" in 692, which forbade the celebration of any festivals during <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>, excepting the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day" title="Lord's Day">Lord's Day</a> (Sunday) and the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Feast" title="Great Feast" class="mw-redirect">Feast</a> of the Annunciation. A <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Worcester" title="Synod of Worcester">Synod of Worcester</a>, England in 1240 forbade all servile work on the feast. As this feast celebrates the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnation" title="Incarnation">Incarnation</a> of the Second Person of the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a>, many Church Fathers, including <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Athanasius" title="St. Athanasius" class="mw-redirect">St. Athanasius</a>, <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Gregory_of_Nyssa" title="St. Gregory of Nyssa" class="mw-redirect">St. Gregory of Nyssa</a>, and <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine" title="St. Augustine" class="mw-redirect">St. Augustine</a>, have expounded on it.<sup id="cite_ref-cna_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cna-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>In the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican</a>, and <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran" title="Lutheran" class="mw-redirect">Lutheran</a> <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_calendar" title="Liturgical calendar" class="mw-redirect">liturgical calendars</a>, the feast is moved if necessary to prevent it from falling during <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week" title="Holy Week">Holy Week</a> or <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Week" title="Easter Week">Easter Week</a> or on a Sunday. To avoid a Sunday before Holy Week, the next day (26 March) would be observed instead. In years such as 2005 when 25 March falls within <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week" title="Holy Week">Holy Week</a> or Easter Week, the Annunciation is moved to the Monday after the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_of_Easter" title="Octave of Easter">Octave of Easter</a>, i.e., the Monday after the Second Sunday of <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>The Eastern churches, (<a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox</a>, <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy" title="Oriental Orthodoxy">Oriental</a>, and <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches" title="Eastern Catholic Churches">Eastern Catholic</a>) do not move the feast of the Annunciation under any circumstance. They have special combined liturgies for those years when the Annunciation coincides with another feast. In these churches, even on <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday" title="Good Friday">Good Friday</a> a <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Liturgy" title="Divine Liturgy">Divine Liturgy</a> is celebrated when it coincides with the Annunciation. One of the most frequent accusations brought against <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_calendarists" title="New calendarists">New Calendarism</a> is the fact that in the New Calendar churches (which celebrate the Annunciation according to the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_Calendar" title="Revised Julian Calendar" class="mw-redirect">New Calendar</a>, but Easter according to the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Calendar" title="Julian Calendar" class="mw-redirect">Old Calendar</a>), these special Liturgies can never be celebrated any more, since the Annunciation is always long before <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week" title="Holy Week">Holy Week</a> on the New Calendar. The Old Calendarists believe that this impoverishes the liturgical and spiritual life of the Church.</p> <p>The date is close to the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernal_equinox" title="Vernal equinox" class="mw-redirect">vernal equinox</a>, as <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> is to the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice" title="Winter solstice">winter solstice</a>; because of this the Annunciation and Christmas were two of the four "<a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_days" title="Quarter days">quarter days</a>" in medieval and early modern England, which marked the divisions of the fiscal year (the other two were <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer_Day" title="Midsummer Day" class="mw-redirect">Midsummer Day</a>, or the Nativity of <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_the_Baptist" title="St. John the Baptist" class="mw-redirect">St. John the Baptist</a>, on 24 June, and <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelmas" title="Michaelmas">Michaelmas</a>, the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_day" title="Feast day" class="mw-redirect">feast day</a> of <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">St. Michael</a>, on 29 September).</p> <p>When the calendar system of <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">Anno Domini</a> was first introduced by <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Exiguus" title="Dionysius Exiguus">Dionysius Exiguus</a> in AD 525, he assigned the beginning of the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_year" title="New year" class="mw-redirect">new year</a> to 25 March, because according to Catholic doctrine, the age of <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_grace" title="Divine grace">grace</a> began with the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnation_of_Christ" title="Incarnation of Christ" class="mw-redirect">Incarnation of Christ</a> at the Annunciation, on which date Jesus Christ is believed to have been conceived in the Virgin Mary by the <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a>.</p> <p>The <a href="/web/20150329063008/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus" title="Knights of Columbus">Knights of Columbus</a> observe the Feast of the Annunciation as the "International Day of the Unborn Child".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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