Set in the middle of Lent, this Feast marks the angel Gabriel’s visit to Mary. The first mentions of the Feast as during the Council of Toledo, 656 AD, along with being mentioned during the Council of Constantinople in 692, where festivals were forbidden during Lent except for the Lord’s Day and the Feast of Annunciation.
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