TASS/. Russian Orthodox Christians are marking the feast of Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, one of the twelve main feasts of the liturgical year that coincides in 2018 with the Holy Saturday.

In the Orthodox Church, we commemorate the Great Feast of Annunciation on March 25. Without coincidence, this occurs nine months before the Great Feast of Nativity or Christmas. In the Annunciation, ...

A: There are many Marian feast days celebrated in the Catholic Church, but the principal ones are the Solemnity of Mary, the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, the Annunciation, the Assumption ...

The Virgin and Child with Angels by a Fountain, Bernaert Van Orley (1492-1541) There are basically two traditions of the Annunciation iconography: one situating it at a cistern or fountain, the other ...

"Accordingly, we chose Tuesday, March 25, 2025, the Feast of the Annunciation, to celebrate the ordination of his eminence as Catholicos of India with the name ‘His Beatitude Mor Baselios Joseph ...

He announced the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary and is associated with the Annunciation, a pivotal moment in Christian theology. In the Bible passage of Luke 1:26-38, Gabriel visits Mary ...