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unusual facts about Nativity of the Theotokos


Church of the Nativity of The Most Holy Theotokos, Novaci

It was built in 1857 and is dedicated to the Nativity of The Most Holy Theotokos (Virgin Mary).


Missa in tempore belli

As Kapellmeister to the Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy, Haydn’s principal duty in the last period of his life, beginning in 1796, was the composition of an annual mass to honour the name day of Prince Nicholas’ wife, Princess Maria Hermenegild, 8 September, the birth of the Blessed Virgin.


see also

Afterfeast

Joachim and Anna (9 September—the day after the Nativity of the Theotokos)

Putyvl

The foundations of its three-domed cathedral, dedicated to the Nativity of the Theotokos, belong to the 1590s, but the main part of the church is one of the earliest Baroque structures in the region, described in its entirety by Paul of Aleppo in 1654.