McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Visitation (Of St. Mary), Festival Of The

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Visitation (Of St. Mary), Festival Of The

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Visdelou, Claude de
Vise
Vishnu
Visible Church
Vision
Visit
Visitants
Visitatio Liminum
Visitation
Visitation (Of St. Mary), Festival Of The
Visitation (Of St. Mary), Order Of The
Visitation Of The Sick
Visitation Or (The Blessed Virgin) Mary
Visitation (2)
Visitation, The Saxon
Visitor
Viso, Fray Cristobal dei
Vispered
Visscher, Cornelius

a festival of the Church of Rome, instituted about 1338 by pope Urban VI, in memory of the visitation of Mary (q.v.) to Elisabeth the mother of John the Baptist. It is fixed for July 2. See Jameson, Legends of the Madonna, p. 193.