BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:www-bafid-fau-eu//Events//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary UID:e749-1805-a021-4424@www.bafid.fau.eu DESCRIPTION:In all traditions of Christianity\, Mary plays an importan t role as the woman who gave birth to the Son of God as a human in Bet hlehem. Therefore\, the calendars of the various traditions include a whole series of “\;Marian feasts\,”\; with which they commem orate individual events from the life of Mary: Among these is the feas t of the “\;Annunciation of the Mother of God\,”\; which is celebrated on December 8th each year. The determination of December 8t h is based on the observation that a woman’\;s pregnancy typicall y lasts nine months—which is why the date for the feast was calculat ed to be nine months before the feast of the birth of Mary on Septembe r 8th. Its date in the year\, in turn\, probably resulted from the con secration day of the Church of St. Anne\, the mother of Mary\, in Jeru salem\, which was consecrated on September 8. The feast of the “\ ;Conception of the Mother of God”\; is given different significan ce in the various traditions of Christianity. The Orthodox Churches of the Byzantine traditions refer to the apocryphal text known as the Pr otoevangelium of James\, which likely originated in the mid-2nd centur y. In it\, apparently\, about the depiction of the announcement of the birth of Jesus to Mary in the canonical gospels\, it describes how An na and Joachim\, the parents of Mary\, are childless and turn to God w ith a request for a child. He then sends an angel who announces to the m that God has granted their request—whereupon the parents promise t o hand over the child to the priests at the temple in Jerusalem so tha t it may grow up there among the temple virgins. Thus\, the Eastern tr adition prepares the biblical tradition that Mary\, as a virgin\, woul d bear a child. From the East\, the feast seems to have entered the La tin Church\, where it gained a different dogmatic significance. In the year 1854\, Pope Pius IX. issued the Catholic belief (= dogma) in Rom e that Mary was conceived without sin. This decree was i DTSTART:20251208T000000Z DTEND:20251208T103000Z DTSTAMP:20260420T164633Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR