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No - the Annunciation is 25 March everywhere in the western calendar. The Salutation/Visitation was traditionally 25 June and the day Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth for the birth of John the Baptist and greeted her with the words of the Magnificat (hence the two names for the feast). What impresses me about this story is that Mary, three months pregnant, goes off on a fairly long journey, arrives just after the big event (which is when the new mother really needs support) and presumably rolls up her sleeves and gets on with the washing. When I was 3 months pregnant I felt sick and giddy all the time and could barely get out of bed! Maddy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%