| 释义 |
> as lemmasPresentation of the Virgin Mary In the Christian Church, with reference to the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, as recorded in Luke 2:22–39, and the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, as a child, narrated in the Apocryphal Gospels. Also used to refer to the festivals in which these incidents are celebrated, the former on 2 February (see Candlemas n., purification n. 1b), the latter, by the Greek and Roman Churches, on 21 November. Also, in Art: a representation of either of these incidents.< |