Annunciation of the Virgin March 25. Hail Happy.
On this day, the church celebrates the joyous message of divine incarnation. The God-sent Archangel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary in Nazareth and announced to her that she would give birth to the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
Theotokos Virgin, rejoice, rejoicing Mary, the Lord after you; blessed are you in woman and blessed is the fruit of your womb, that Savior fell on our souls.
The fact that St. Helen built a basilica in Nazareth, which traditionally included the house of the Virgin, where she received the Annunciation, may have influenced the establishment of a local feast.
The first testimonies about it are found in Agios Proklos, Patriarch of Constantinople, in 430 AD, and in the Paschalion Chronikon (624 AD), where it is characterized as established on March 25 by the godly teachers.
In 560 Justinian I promoted March 25, as the appropriate day to celebrate the Annunciation. A variety of different reasons led to this introduction.
The day of the arrest of John the Baptist, that is, the 24th of September, coincided with the autumnal equinox, since on this day, on which the Jews celebrated the feast of the Atonement, Zacharias received from the archangel Gabriel the message that he would receive .
Therefore, since according to Lk. 1, 26 the Evangelism took place six months later, this date coinciding with the vernal equinox, that is, on March 25, and the Nativity of Christ was determined nine months later, that is, on December 25, at the winter solstice.
The joyful feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary is celebrated during Lent, a period of mourning, during which the celebration of feasts and festivals is forbidden. With the 52nd canon of the Pentecostal Ecumenical Synod, the feast of the Annunciation was allowed as an exception, during which the divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and not the function of the Presanctified Gifts.
In Constantinople, according to the custom, on the day of the Annunciation, the emperor in a procession from Hagia Sophia went to the church of St. Constantine in Foro and from there ended up in the church of the Virgin of the Coppersmiths, where a majestic celebration took place.
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