{"id":618,"date":"2025-11-21T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewtnromania.com\/2025\/11\/21\/what-we-know-about-the-presentation-of-mary\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:23:22","slug":"what-we-know-about-the-presentation-of-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/2025\/11\/21\/what-we-know-about-the-presentation-of-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Know About the Presentation of Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"faq-summary\">\n<p><strong>Q: What is the article mainly about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: This article explores the &#8220;Presentation of Mary,&#8221; a significant event in Catholic tradition, contrasting it with the scripturally-\ndocumented Presentation of the Lord and delving into its historical origins and meaning.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Where does the story of Mary&#8217;s Presentation come from, since it&#8217;s not in the Bible?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The story primarily comes from the &#8220;Protoevangelium of James,&#8221; an ancient text from apostolic times, which describes Mary&#8217;s parents, Joachim and Anna, consecrating her to God in the Temple around age three.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What happened when Mary was presented at the Temple?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: According to the &#8220;Protoevangelium of James,&#8221; Mary, accompanied by virgins with lamps, was received by a Temple priest who blessed her, proclaimed her future significance, and then she danced with joy on the Temple steps before being nurtured there.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Why is the Presentation of Mary an important feast day for Catholics?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: It&#8217;s important because it celebrates Mary&#8217;s unique dedication to God, her perfect purity, and her role as the mother of Christ and the Church, while also honoring the sacrifice of her parents.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Is this feast day well-known, and what is its significance today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: While dating back to early Church history and honored by many saints and popes, it&#8217;s categorized as a &#8220;memorial&#8221; rather than a holy day of obligation, making it easily overlooked, but it still offers Catholics a chance to reflect on Mary&#8217;s devotion and their own call to serve God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nThis is a summary of the article from https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/what-we-know-presentation-of-mary. Visit this link to view more.\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RikfeoBktD\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/what-we-know-presentation-of-mary\">What do we know about the presentation of Mary?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;What do we know about the presentation of Mary?&#8221; &#8212; EWTN Vatican\" src=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/what-we-know-presentation-of-mary\/embed#?secret=juwQB0WAMJ#?secret=RikfeoBktD\" data-secret=\"RikfeoBktD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What is the article mainly about? A: This article explores the &#8220;Presentation of Mary,&#8221; a significant event in Catholic tradition, contrasting it with the scripturally- documented Presentation of the Lord and delving into its historical origins and meaning. Q: Where does the story of Mary&#8217;s Presentation come from, since it&#8217;s not in the Bible? [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}