De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple ~Willem Vrelant (Flemish, died 1481, active 1454 - 1481) Today is the Feast of The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as The Entry of the Most Holy  Theotókos into the Temple, in the East.This feast celebrates Mary’s “dedication” of herself to God from her infancy, inspired by the Holy Spirit, whose grace had filled her ever since her immaculate conception. The feast is associated with an event recounted in the apocryphal  Protoevangelium of James , which tells us how Mary's parents, Joachim and Anne, who had been childless, received a heavenly message that they would have a child. In thanksgiving for the gift of their daughter, they brought her, when still a child, to the Temple in Jerusalem to consecrate her to God. Later versions of the story (such as the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary ) tell us that Mary was taken to the Temple at around the age of three in fulfil...