Presentation of Mary

The Memorial of Our Lady into Jerusalem on the liturgical year of the Catholic Church ( with a different name and some other hard mystery of Mary in the Temple, the Virgin Mary or Presentation of Mary in the Temple, latin presentations Beatae Mariae Virginis ), in the Eastern Churches launch of our all-holy mistress, the Theotokos and always Virgin Mary in the Temple, Marie is a day of remembrance. Fixed date is November 21. In the Eastern churches that follow the Julian calendar, this day falls on the 4th of December of the Gregorian.

In the East this feast the traditional from the apocryphal Gospel of James event the offering of three -year-old Mary in the temple is dedicated to the Virgin by her parents Joachim and Anna since the 6th century. It is one of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox church year and is celebrated on the eve of the 21 to 25 November.

The Roman Catholic Church took over the party after it had long been rejected in the 14th century under the name of the Virgin Mary. It was in 1371 by Pope Gregory XI. enshrined in Avignon, and in 1472 by Pope Sixtus IV for the entire Catholic Church.

The liturgical reform certain 21 November as the Memorial of Our Lady in Jerusalem. Even in the presentation of the Gospel of Luke, Mary is the prototype and perfect embodiment of the daughter of Zion, as an image of Jerusalem and Israel in his suffering, his hope and his faith. By being mother of the Son of God, she is also the new temple or tabernacle and mother and source of life of the Church. The Second Vatican Council, this close relationship between Mary and the mystery of the Church thus expressed, that it made the exposition of the Blessed Mother at the end of the Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium.