Nativity of Mary

The feast of Mary's birth reminds us of the birth of Mary, mother of Jesus, and is celebrated in the liturgical year of the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches and the Anglican Church on September 8.

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History

The festival developed at the end of the 5th century from the consecration of the church feast of the Blessed Mother. In the 7th century, this feast was celebrated in the Eastern and Western Church. This festival certain later the appointment of the Solemnity of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, nine months earlier, on December 8.

Worship

Patrozinien

• Mary Nativity Church

In Tyrol's places Nassereith and Obsteig a High Mass is celebrated with a procession on the Sunday after the Nativity of Mary.

Iconography

In Christian iconography, the birth of Mary is a frequent motive as a single representation, but mainly as part of cycles the life of Mary, the life of St.. Anna, the mother of Mary, or the childhood and youth of Jesus. Paintings and sculptures of the Nativity of Our Lady often contain genre -like elements, can provide information about obstetrics and customs surrounding childbirth and the puerperium the respective time of origin of works of art.

Masterpieces

• The Birth of Mary ( Ghirlandaio ), Fresco in a Florentine church

Lostag

Popularly Nativity of Mary is associated with the beginning of autumn: " Birth of Mary the swallows fly wade. " Or " birth sin Marie de guet Nüete " the feast of birth is also called "little Women " In the vernacular.