Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
The earliest feasts that relate to Mary grew out of the cycle of feasts that celebrated the Nativity of Jesus. Given that according to the Gospel of Luke (), forty days after the birth of Jesus, along with the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, Mary was purified according to Jewish customs, the "Feast of the Purification" began to be celebrated by the 5th century, and became the "Feast of Simeon" in Byzantium.