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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On Sunday, March 25, 2007, at 2:19 pm. I wrote: > Today (25. March) is the feast day of: > > 1) The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary (also The Annunciation > of the Lord Jesus). In the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches when this feast would fall on a Sunday (as in 2007) it is instead celebrated on the following Monday. So for many, this year, today (26. March) is actually the feast of the Annunciation. Roman Catholics have returned to calling it the Annunciation of the Lord (as the feast was often called medievally). Correcting a couple of slips:: > The twelfth-/fifteenth-century cattedrale della Santissima Maria > Annunziata at Todi: The correct word order is Maria Santissima Annunziata. > The late thirteenth-century Annunciation fresco ascribed to Pietro di > Miniato da Firenze (1366-1440 ca.) in Florence's Santa Maria Novella: > http://www.smn.it/images/ch021.jpg late fourteenth-century, obviously. Two more Annunciations: Mosaic by Pietro Cavallini (1291) in Rome's Santa Maria in Trastevere: http://tinyurl.com/2at5wm Early fourteenth-century icon from the church of Sv. Kliment, Ochrid, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Lepota.jpg Best again, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html