#November 21, the Presentation of the Theotokos
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According to Tradition, Mary was taken -- presented—to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem as a young girl, where she lived and served until her betrothal to Joseph.
The feast is associated with an event recounted not in the New Testament, but in the apocryphal Infancy Narrative of James.
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The Presentation was one of the usual scenes in larger cycles of the Life of the Virgin, although it was not usually one of the scenes shown in a Book of Hours.
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In thanksgiving for the gift of their daughter, they brought her, when still a child, to the Temple in Jerusalem to consecrate her to God.
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Devotion towards the Mother of Sorrows being the principal distinctive characteristic of the order, there are special prayers and indulgences attaching to the solemn celebration of the five major Marian feasts: the Annunciation, Visitation, Assumption, Presentation and Nativity of our Blessed Lady.
Toward his last years from 1771 he created the memorable stucco sculptures to represent The Presentation of Mary in the Temple on the altar of St. Anne's church in Buda.
He painted two canvases, the Baptism and Presentation of Mary to temple for the church of San Lorenzo in Castelli Calepio.
On December 21, 2003 the bishop of the Ternopil-Zboriv eparchy, Mykhaylo Sabryha, and Abbot Gregory Planchak of the Monastery of St. Theodor the Studite blessed the women’s monastery of the Presentation of Mary in Velyki Birky.