Holy Name of Mary

The festival is celebrated in the Holy Name of Mary Church year the Roman Catholic Church on September 12.

Origin

The feast goes back to a festival in honor of the Holy Name of Mary. In the name of the Virgin Mary, the Ottoman conquest was stopped. The feast day was first celebrated in 1513 from the Diocese of Cuenca neukastilischen headquartered in Cuenca (Spain).

Pope Innocent XI. (1676-1689) continued the feast day for the whole Church firmly binding after September 12, 1683 combined Christian armies under the command of the Polish King John III. Sobieski had finished the second Siege of Vienna by the victorious Battle of Kahlenberg near Vienna. The army the banner was carried in front of the Madonna of Mercy. Pope Pius X moved the first for the Sunday after the Nativity of Mary (September 8 ) prescribed feast of Mary's name on September 12, the actual day of victory.

In the General Calendar (General Roman Calendar ) 1970 was deleted, the hard, as it constituted a duplication of the feast of the birth on September 8. In regional calendar for the German -speaking region, it remained as a non- optional memorial because of the historical relation with the language area and the roots of the people. Since 2002, Holy Name of Mary is also included as a Non- optional memorial in the General Calendar. Numerous churches are subject to the patronage of the name of Mary.

Patrozinien

Importance in sequence

The farming calendar marked Holy Name of Mary as the conclusion of the summer:

For the predominantly rural society September 12 also had a legal meaning: From this date allowed by the poor, the broken-down grain collected from the harvested fields.