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Mary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Army_of_Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima" title="Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima">World Apostolate of Fátima</a> <a href="/wiki/Blue_Army_of_Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima" title="Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima">(Blue Army)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariological_Society_of_America" title="Mariological Society of America">Mariological Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_Lady%27s_Rosary_Makers" title="Our Lady's Rosary Makers">Our Lady's Rosary Makers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marian_Movement_of_Priests" title="Marian Movement of Priests">Marian Movement of Priests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatima_Family_Apostolate" title="Fatima Family Apostolate">Fatima Family Apostolate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_of_Angels_Foundation" title="Queen of Angels Foundation">Queen of Angels Foundation</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" 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<li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Annunciation</a> (25 March)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary" title="Assumption of Mary">Assumption</a> (15 August)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nativity_of_Mary" title="Nativity of Mary">Nativity</a> (8 September)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Most_Holy_Name_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary" title="Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary">Holy Name</a> (12 September)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Presentation_of_Mary" title="Presentation of Mary">Presentation</a> (21 November)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Feast_of_the_Immaculate_Conception" title="Feast of the Immaculate Conception">Immaculate Conception</a> (8 December)</span></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:046CupolaSPietro.jpg" 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href="/wiki/Template:Catholic_Mariology_sidebar" title="Template:Catholic Mariology sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Catholic_Mariology_sidebar" title="Template talk:Catholic Mariology sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Catholic_Mariology_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Catholic Mariology sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Feast of the Annunciation</b> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Ο Ευαγγελισμός της Θεοτόκου</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Greek-language romanization"><i lang="el-Latn">O Evangelismós tis Theotókou</i></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'the Annunciation of the Mother of God') commemorates the visit of the <a href="/wiki/Archangel" title="Archangel">archangel</a> <a href="/wiki/Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Gabriel</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mary">Virgin Mary</a>, during which he <a href="/wiki/Annunciation" title="Annunciation">informed her</a> that she would be the mother of <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Son_of_God" title="Son of God">Son of God</a>. It is celebrated on 25 March; however, if 25 March falls either in Holy Week or in Easter Week, the feast is postponed to the Monday after the <a href="/wiki/Second_Sunday_of_Easter" title="Second Sunday of Easter">Second Sunday of Easter</a>. </p><p>Other names for the feast include the <b>Solemnity of the Annunciation</b>, <b><a href="/wiki/Lady_Day" title="Lady Day">Lady Day</a></b>, <b>Feast of the Incarnation</b> (<span title="Latin-language text"><span lang="la">Festum incarnationis</span></span>), and <b><span title="Latin-language text"><span lang="la">Conceptio Christi</span></span></b> (Christ's Conception). </p><p>The Feast of the Annunciation is observed almost universally throughout Christianity, especially within the Eastern Orthodox Church, <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>, the Catholic Church, and <a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>. It is a major <a href="/wiki/Marian_feast_days" title="Marian feast days">Marian feast</a>, classified as a <a href="/wiki/Solemnity" title="Solemnity">solemnity</a> in the Catholic Church, a <a href="/wiki/Liturgical_calendar_(Lutheran)#Festivals" title="Liturgical calendar (Lutheran)">Festival</a> in Lutheranism, and a <a href="/wiki/Principal_Feast" title="Principal Feast">Principal Feast</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a>. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, because it announces the <a href="/wiki/Incarnation_(Christianity)" title="Incarnation (Christianity)">incarnation</a> of Christ, it is counted as one of the eight <a href="/wiki/Great_feasts_in_the_Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Great feasts in the Eastern Orthodox Church">great feasts of the Lord</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The importance attached to the Annunciation, especially in the Catholic Church, are the <a href="/wiki/Angelus" title="Angelus">Angelus</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Hail_Mary" title="Hail Mary">Hail Mary</a> prayers, the event's position as the first <a href="/wiki/Rosary#Mysteries_of_the_Rosary" title="Rosary">Joyful Mystery</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Rosary" class="mw-redirect" title="Dominican Rosary">Dominican Rosary</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mary,_help_of_Christians/Novena_3:_For_the_Feast_of_the_Annunciation_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary" class="extiw" title="s:Mary, help of Christians/Novena 3: For the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary">Novena for the Feast of the Annunciation</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-cna_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cna-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the numerous depictions of the <a href="/wiki/Annunciation_in_Christian_art" title="Annunciation in Christian art">Annunciation in Christian art</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biblical_narrative">Biblical narrative</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Feast_of_the_Annunciation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biblical narrative"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Annunciation" title="Annunciation">Annunciation</a></div> <p>The "angelic salutation" of Gabriel to Mary is recorded in the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Gospel of Luke</a>: "Hail, full of grace, the L<span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">ORD</span> is with thee" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1:28&version=dra">1:28</a>; <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/Vulgate" title="Vulgate">Vulgate</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1:28&version=vulgate"><i>ave gratia plena Dominus tecum</i></a>), and Mary's response to God's will; "be it done to me according to thy word" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1:38&version=dra">Luke 1:38</a>; Vulgate: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1:38&version=vulgate"><i>fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum</i></a>).<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The "angelic salutation" is the origin of the <a href="/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="/wiki/Elizabeth_(biblical_figure)" title="Elizabeth (biblical figure)">Saint Elizabeth</a> to Mary at the <a href="/wiki/Visitation_(Christianity)" title="Visitation (Christianity)">Visitation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Feast_of_the_Annunciation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest evidence for a Feast of the Annunciation or Incarnation is from the <a href="/wiki/Sixth_century" class="mw-redirect" title="Sixth century">sixth century</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_News_Agency" title="Catholic News Agency">Catholic News Agency</a> dates it to the fifth century.<sup id="cite_ref-cna_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cna-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first certain mentions of the feast are in a <a href="/wiki/Canon_law" title="Canon law">canon</a>, of the <a href="/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="/wiki/Council_of_Constantinople_(692)" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of Constantinople (692)">Council of Constantinople</a> "<a href="/wiki/Quinisext_Council" title="Quinisext Council">in Trullo</a>" in 692, which forbade the celebration of any festivals during <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>, excepting the <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Day" title="Lord's Day">Lord's Day</a> (Sunday) and the <a href="/wiki/Great_Feast" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Feast">Feast</a> of the Annunciation. A <a href="/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="/wiki/Incarnation" title="Incarnation">Incarnation</a> of the Second Person of the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a>, many Church Fathers, including <a href="/wiki/St._Athanasius" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Athanasius">St. Athanasius</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Gregory_of_Nyssa" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Gregory of Nyssa">St. Gregory of Nyssa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Augustine">St. Augustine</a>, have expounded on it.<sup id="cite_ref-cna_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cna-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From the earliest recorded history, the feast has been celebrated on 25 March, commemorating both the belief that the spring equinox was not only the day of <a href="/wiki/Genesis_creation_narrative" title="Genesis creation narrative">God's act of Creation</a> but also the beginning of Christ's redemption of that same Creation. Christian antiquity held 25 March as the actual day of Jesus' death.<sup id="cite_ref-Pronechen_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pronechen-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The opinion that the Incarnation also took place on that date is found in the <a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Cyprian" title="Pseudo-Cyprian">pseudo-Cyprianic</a> work <i>De Pascha Computus</i>, c. 240. It says that the coming of Jesus and his death must have coincided with the creation and fall of <a href="/wiki/Adam" title="Adam">Adam</a>. Since the world was created in spring, Christ was also conceived and died shortly after the equinox of spring. Similar calculations are found in the early and later <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, and to them, the dates of the feast of the Annunciation and of Christmas owe their origin.<sup id="cite_ref-Pronechen_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pronechen-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Consequently the ancient martyrologies assign to 25 March the creation of Adam and the crucifixion of Jesus; also, the fall of <a href="/wiki/Lucifer" title="Lucifer">Lucifer</a>, the passing of <a href="/wiki/Israelites" title="Israelites">Israel</a> through the <a href="/wiki/Red_Sea" title="Red Sea">Red Sea</a> and the immolation of <a href="/wiki/Isaac" title="Isaac">Isaac</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Holweck_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holweck-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Medieval <i><a href="/wiki/Golden_Legend" title="Golden Legend">Golden Legend</a></i> identifies 25 March as not only the date of Creation and Annunciation, but also a large number of other significant events in <a href="/wiki/Salvation_history" title="Salvation history">salvation history</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Good_Friday" title="Good Friday">Good Friday</a> of Christ's crucifixion and death.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the tradition of the Western Churches (<a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Western_Rite_Orthodoxy" title="Western Rite Orthodoxy">Western Rite Orthodoxy</a>), the feast is moved if necessary to prevent it from falling during <a href="/wiki/Holy_Week" title="Holy Week">Holy Week</a> or <a href="/wiki/Easter_Week" class="mw-redirect" title="Easter Week">Easter Week</a> or on a Sunday on the <a href="/wiki/Liturgical_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Liturgical calendar">liturgical calendars</a>. To avoid a Sunday before Holy Week, the next day (26 March) would be observed instead. In years such as 2016 and 2024 when 25 March fell within <a href="/wiki/Holy_Week" title="Holy Week">Holy Week</a> or Easter Week, the Annunciation is moved to the Monday after the <a href="/wiki/Octave_of_Easter" title="Octave of Easter">Octave of Easter</a>, i.e., the Monday after the Second Sunday of <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Holweck_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holweck-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the tradition of the Eastern churches, (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental Orthodoxy">Oriental</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches" title="Eastern Catholic Churches">Eastern Catholic</a>) the feast of the Annunciation is never moved 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="/wiki/Good_Friday" title="Good Friday">Good Friday</a> a <a href="/wiki/Divine_Liturgy" title="Divine Liturgy">Divine Liturgy</a> is celebrated when it coincides with the Annunciation.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Greek Independence Day is celebrated on the feast of the Annunciation and 25 March is also a national holiday in the Lebanon.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The date is close to the <a href="/wiki/March_equinox" title="March equinox">vernal equinox</a>, as <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> is to the <a href="/wiki/Winter_solstice" title="Winter solstice">winter solstice</a>; because of this the Annunciation and Christmas were two of the four "<a href="/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="/wiki/Midsummer_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Midsummer Day">Midsummer Day</a>, or the Nativity of <a href="/wiki/St._John_the_Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="St. John the Baptist">St. John the Baptist</a>, on 24 June, and <a href="/wiki/Michaelmas" title="Michaelmas">Michaelmas</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Feast_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Feast day">feast day</a> of <a href="/wiki/Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">St. Michael</a>, on 29 September).<sup id="cite_ref-Pronechen_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pronechen-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the calendar system of <a href="/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">Anno Domini</a> was first introduced by <a href="/wiki/Dionysius_Exiguus" title="Dionysius Exiguus">Dionysius Exiguus</a> in AD 525, he assigned the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/New_year" class="mw-redirect" title="New year">new year</a> to 25 March, because according to Christian doctrine, the age of <a href="/wiki/Divine_grace" title="Divine grace">grace</a> began with the <a href="/wiki/Incarnation_of_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Incarnation of Christ">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="/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pronechen_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pronechen-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pope <a href="/wiki/John_Paul_II" class="mw-redirect" title="John Paul II">John Paul II</a> established 25 March as the <a href="/wiki/International_Day_of_the_Unborn_Child" title="International Day of the Unborn Child">International Day of the Unborn Child</a>, for its commemoration of the conception of Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Feast_of_the_Annunciation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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0 0 purple;"><a href="/wiki/Advent" title="Advent">Advent</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Sundays <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Sunday_of_Advent" class="mw-redirect" title="First Sunday of Advent">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Sunday_of_Advent" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Sunday of Advent">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaudete_Sunday" title="Gaudete Sunday">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Sunday_of_Advent" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth Sunday of Advent">4th</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rorate_Mass" class="mw-redirect" title="Rorate Mass">Rorate Mass</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Feast_of_the_Immaculate_Conception" title="Feast of the Immaculate Conception">Immaculate Conception</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O_Antiphons" title="O Antiphons">Greater Ferias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ember_days" title="Ember days">Winter Ember Days</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #ffea7d;width:1%;text-align: right;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #f0ffff;"><a href="/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas" title="Twelve Days of Christmas">Christmas Season</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christmas_Eve" title="Christmas Eve">Christmas Eve</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Feast_of_the_Circumcision_of_Christ" title="Feast of the Circumcision of Christ">Octave Day of Christmas</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feast_of_the_Holy_Name_of_Jesus" title="Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus">Holy Name of Jesus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #ffea7d;width:1%;text-align: right;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 green;"><a href="/wiki/Epiphany_season" title="Epiphany season">Epiphany Season</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)" title="Epiphany (holiday)">Epiphany</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feast_of_the_Holy_Family" class="mw-redirect" title="Feast of the Holy Family">Holy Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptism_of_the_Lord" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptism of the Lord">Baptism of the Lord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candlemas" title="Candlemas">Purification of Mary</a><sup><abbr title="Procession">P</abbr></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #ffea7d;width:1%;text-align: right;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 purple;"><a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" 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href="/w/index.php?title=Second_Sunday_of_Lent&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Second Sunday of Lent (page does not exist)">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Third_Sunday_of_Lent&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Third Sunday of Lent (page does not exist)">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laetare_Sunday" title="Laetare Sunday">4th</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ember_days" title="Ember days">Spring Ember Days</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_Day" title="Saint Joseph's Day">Saint Joseph</a></i></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Annunciation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #ffea7d;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Passiontide" title="Passiontide">Passiontide</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Passion_Sunday" title="Passion Sunday">Passion Sunday</a></li> <li><a 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Supper</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Good_Friday" title="Good Friday">Good Friday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Saturday" title="Holy Saturday">Holy Saturday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easter_Vigil" title="Easter Vigil">Easter Vigil</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #ffea7d;width:1%;text-align: right;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #f0ffff;"><a href="/wiki/Eastertide" title="Eastertide">Easter Season</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter Sunday</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Easter_parade" title="Easter parade">P</a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Octave_of_Easter" title="Octave of Easter">Octave</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sundays after Easter <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Sunday_of_Easter" title="Second Sunday of Easter">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Sunday_of_Easter" title="Third 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