The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple
Feast · theotokos
- 21 November (Roman Catholic Church)
- 21 November (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Commemorating
- Mary, mother of Jesus commemorates
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 21 November, «Вхо́дъ во хра́мъ прест҃ы́ѧ влⷣчцы на́шеѧ бцⷣы и҆ приснодв҃ы мр҃і́и», p. 263; the rank, after A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services, pp. 34-35, The Twelve Feasts
Glosses
- The Twelve Great Feasts, and the one that is not among them The Byzantine year is framed by twelve feasts — the Dodekaorton — running from the Nativity of the Theotokos on 8 September to her Dormition on 15 August, some fixed to a date and some moving with Pascha. They are not…