The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was first celebrated by the Greeks
in about the eighth century and was not adopted by the Roman Catholic Church until the
later Middle Ages; no one is quite sure when this festival was first introduced.
As related in the apocryphal Book of James, it commemorates the presentation of the
three-year-old Mary in the Temple to consecrate her to the service of God.
Many have confused this festival with the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple,
otherwise known as Candlemas.
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