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A-Z: General definitions: Old Lady Day
Definition
The date of the Catholic Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. On this date (6th April in the Gregorian calendar) farm labourers who were changing farms would travel from the old one to the new.
The angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary that she was going to be the mother of Jesus, the Son of God.
Mary, the mother of Jesus and wife of Joseph. It is traditionally understood that Mary was, and remained, a virgin during both the conception and birth of Jesus.
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