Protestants do not celebrate this, or any other Marian feasts.

The origin of Marian feasts is lost to history.

Marian feasts are superior to the feast days of the saints.

That would have been exactly ten years before the transposed version, and composed for the same Marian feast.

The Marian feast was celebrated by the order of Servites since the 17th century.

The piece is a collection more or less in keeping with the liturgy of a solemn vespers service for a Marian feast.

It is usually worn during the month of Mary (May) and sometimes on major Marian feast days.

His 1892 Freiburg dissertation collected 940 Marian feasts and customs.

Main article: Marian feast days (includes lists of feast days)

It is a principal Marian feast, classified as a solemnity in the Catholic Church.

In the 7th and 8th centuries four more Marian feasts were established in the Eastern Church.

The number of Marian feasts celebrated, their names (and at times dates) can vary among Christian denominations.

However, in the 17th century, there was a gradual return to Marianism and by 1662 there were five Marian feasts.

He goes on to write that formatting the Vespers to fit a Marian feast made the work more "marketable".

Next week, we celebrate the feast of the Visitation, one of the less-renowned Marian feasts.

Our parish cluster has embraced this special feast day by claiming it as the primal Marian feast of the calendar year.

He describes the miracles of Mary and explains specific local customs and usages on Marian feast days.

The most prominent Marian feast days in the General Roman Calendar are:

The liturgical texts of the Marian feast days all link Mary to Jesus Christ.

Several liturgical Marian feasts are celebrated throughout the Church Year and she is honoured with many titles such as Queen of Heaven.

Some theologians proposed the abolition of all Marian feast days altogether, except those with biblical foundations and the feast of the Assumption.

Others could be used at parish Masses or Communion services, Marian feasts and reconciliation, anointing and missioning liturgies.

The earliest Marian feasts were introduced into the Roman liturgical calendar by Pope Sergius I (687-701).

Among the most prominent Marian feast days in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic liturgical calendars are:

Magnificat, a regular part in Catholic vesper services, was also used in the Lutheran church, in vespers and for Marian feasts.