The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
On November 21 the Church remembers an ancient tradition: that Mary, as a young child, was brought by her parents, Sts. Joachim and Anne, to the Temple in Jerusalem and offered to God. The account does not come from the Bible. It is told in the Protoevangelium of James, a 2nd-century writing that the Church does not count as Scripture but that shaped Christian devotion to Mary's early life.