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The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin was first
celebrated by the Greeks in about the eighth century and was not
adopted by the Roman Catholic Church until the later Middle Ages; no
one is quite sure when this festival was first introduced. As related
in the apocryphal Book of James, it commemorates the presentation of
the three-year-old Mary in the Temple to consecrate her to the service
of God. Many have confused this festival with the Feast of the
Presentation of Christ in the Temple, otherwise known as CANDLEMAS.
"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him.
They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun
of it."