Entry of the Most-Holy Theotokos into the Temple
Great Feast. One of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church year.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple in Jerusalem.
What is known
The title places them at Jerusalem.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
Appointed readings
- Composite 17 – Exodus 40:1–5, 9–10, 16, 34–35
- Composite 18 – 3 [1] Kings 8:1, 3–7, 9–11
- Ezekiel 43:27–44:4 continues in 44
- Luke 1:39–49, 56
- Hebrews 9:1–7
- Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on November 21 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 4 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.