Visitation (Christianity)
On the feast of the Visitation (Latin: Visitatio Mariae ) commemorate the Roman Catholic and the Old Catholic Church and some Anglican and Lutheran churches of the episode that is told to the Annunciation in Luke 1.39 EU following: Maria makes his way to visit her cousin Elizabeth (hence " visitation " ) and to share the joy with her. Elisabet, even six months pregnant (see John the Baptist ), she greets with the words: " Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Who am I that the mother of my Lord should come to me? "Mary responds with her famous song of praise, the Magnificat.
Date
The old date of this festival is the 2nd of July. The feast was introduced in 1263 by the Superior General of the Franciscan Bonaventura for his Order. Due to the rapid growth of the Order took place in the whole Western Church quickly spread. Under Pope Pius V, the feast day on July 2 was incorporated into the General Roman Calendar. Since July 2 after the Nativity of John the Baptist ( 24 June) is ( exactly one day after the Octave of St. John Festival ), the post-conciliar liturgical reform mid-1960s moved the festival on May 31 before (until then date of the festival Queenship of Mary ), so it also was the end of the traditional marian month. The German regional calendar, it continues to record on July 2. So will continue to be celebrated in Werl on July 2, the patronal feast of the pilgrimage basilica. Several thousand pilgrims from near and then visit the third largest place of pilgrimage.
In the Old Catholic and Lutheran churches, the feast is celebrated on July 2.
Patrozinien
- Salesian Sisters, Order of the Visitation ( Ordo Visitatio Mariae, OVM )
Churches:
- St. Mary's Visitation Church
Church Music
Often called the Advent choral piece sung Übers mountains Maria goes by Johann Eccard is originally a hard song to the Visitation.
Johann Sebastian Bach composed for this festival two cantatas, 1723 Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life, BWV 147, with the famous chorale Jesu, joy, and 1724 My soul doth magnify the Lord, BWV 10, is a further setting of the theme by Bach his Latin Magnificat.
In the first half of the 19th century ( perhaps much earlier ) probably originated in Eichsfeld the spiritual folk songs Maria by a ' thorn forest went that connects the biblical story of Mary's journey to Elizabeth with the legendary motif of the thorn forest, who had died seven years and at the coming of Mary begins to blossom with the Divine Child in her lap. The song was in the 20th century one of the most popular Christmas songs.