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The Visitation is the visit of Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, to Elizabeth as found in the Gospel of Luke (1:39-45). In what year did the celebration of the Visitation begin?

   1263
   1300
   1389
   1412

Your answer was: 1263.
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Answer: The feast of the Visitation was first observed by the Franciscan Order in 1263 and was extended to the rest of the Church by Pope Boniface IX in1389.

Feast of the Visitation
The Annunciation, Mary & Elizabeth,
Mary, Jesus, Elizabeth & John the Baptist
826-828 (1989)


Article Links:
• Thomas I Crimando, 6th Century of the Institution of the Feast of the Visitation
Vatican Notes, Vol. 38, No. 1 p. 3 (1989)
• Frederick George Holweck Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) Volume 15 - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Visitation_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary