To: Cap'n Crunch
How do we know it is her birthday? Just curious.
3 posted on
09/08/2003 6:11:40 AM PDT by
drstevej
To: drstevej
They take this date as being exactly nine months after the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which is December 8th.
5 posted on
09/08/2003 6:15:34 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
(+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
To: drstevej
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Feast of Our Lady's Nativity has been celebrated since the end of the 7th century and writings from St. Andrew of Crete (died 680) suggest that the feast was celebrated earlier than that.
To: drstevej
How do we know it is her birthday? Just curious. Cause it's right there on the Church's calendar. ;-)
SD
To: drstevej
Tradition
38 posted on
09/08/2003 10:14:00 AM PDT by
Gamecock
(Why TULIP? Because the Bible teaches it as the inspired word of The One Holy Sovereign God!)
To: drstevej
How do we know it is her birthday? Just curious. The birth and early life of the Virgin Mary is not recorded in the Gospels or other books of the New Testament, however this information can be found in a work dating from the second century known as the Book of James or Protevangelion
I found this at Greek Orthodox site
94 posted on
09/09/2003 8:05:16 AM PDT by
katnip
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