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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture The feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple (in Greek, of her Entry in the Temple) is commonly held to derive from a commemoration of the dedication, in 543, is Justinian's New Church of the Theotokos in Jerusalem. In the early (pre-Byzantine) liturgical calendar from Palestine preserved in a Georgian-language version in the tenth-century _Codex sinaiticus_ 34 that feast is entered under 20. November. To correct what I had previsouly written, today's feast is said to be first recorded in late tenth- or very early eleventh-century witnesses of the originally tenth-century Synaxary of Constantinople (e.g. the so-called Menologion of Basil II). Best again, John Dillon On Saturday, November 21, 2009, at 12:13 pm, John Wickstrom wrote: > John (or alii), does anyone know why Nov 21 is the day appointed for > this feast? There often seems to be a biblically based calculation for > such Marian feasts, but nothing occurs to me on this one. > thanks > jbw ********************************************************************** 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