Maria kutolewa hekaluni

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**Bikira Maria Kutolewa Hekaluni** ni kumbukumbu ya liturujia inayoadhimishwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi tarehe 21 Novemba.

## Msingi
Adhimisho linatokana na habari ambayo haipatikani katika Agano Jipya, ila katika Injili ya Yakobo. Humo inasimuliwa kwamba wazazi wa Bikira Maria, Yohakimu na Ana, ambao hawakuwa na watoto, walipata ujumbe kutoka mbinguni kwamba watapata mtoto. 

Kama shukrani ya kupata mtoto wa kike, akiwa bado mdogo walimleta katika Hekalu la Yerusalemu ili kumweka wakfu kwa Mungu. 

Huko alibaki hadi alipotolewa kwa Yosefu.

Kwa namna nyingine, inaaminika kwamba mwenyewe alijitoa mapema kwa Mwenyezi Mungu, yeye aliyejaa neema tangu kutungwa mimba kwa kukingiwa dhambi ya asili na atakayejaliwa kuwa Mama wa Mungu kwa uwezo wa Roho Mtakatifu .

## Asili
Sikukuu ilianzishwa kuhusiana na kutabaruku Basilika jipya la Mtakatifu Maria, lililojengwa mwaka 543 na kaisari Justinian I karibu na mabaki ya Hekalu la Yerusalemu. 

## Picha

File:Presentation of the Virgin - Capella dei Scrovegni.jpg|Mchoro wa Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, 1305 hivi.
File:Taddeo Gaddi - Presentation of Mary in the Temple - WGA08385.jpg|Mchoro wa Taddeo Gaddi, Baroncelli Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence, 1330 hivi.
File:Fredi, Bartolo di - 'Presentation of Mary in the Temple, ca. 1360, Tempra & Gilding on wood, 29 x 43 cm.jpg|Mchoro wa Bartolo di Fredi, 1360 hivi.
Image:Folio 137r - The Presentation of the Virgin.jpg|Mchoro mdogo wa Limbourg Brothers, 1415 hivi.
File:Sano di Pietro - Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple - WGA20768.jpg|Mchoro wa Sano di Pietro, 1450 hivi.
File:Fra Carnevale - The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (detail) - WGA04256.jpg|Mchoro wa Fra Carnevale, 1467 hivi.
File:Cappella Tornabuoni, Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple 01.jpg|Mchoro wa Ghirlandaio, Tornabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1486-1490.
File:Meister des Marienlebens 10.jpg|Mchoro wa Master of Wilten, karne ya 15.
File:Hans Holbein d. Ä. 008.jpg|Mchoro wa Hans Holbein the Elder, 1493.
File:Cima da Conegliano 003.jpg|Mchoro wa Cima da Conegliano circa 1500.
File:"Présentation de la Vierge au Temple" de Titien (Accademia, Venise) (8103563222).jpg|Mchoro wa Titian, 1535 hivi.
File:Presentation of Virgin Mary (icon).jpg|Picha takatifu ya Russia, karne ya 16.
File:Eustache Le Sueur 001.jpg|Mchoro wa Eustache Le Sueur, 1640-1645.
File:Alfonso boschi, presentazione di maria al tempio.jpg|Mchoro wa Alfonso Boschi, karne ya 17.

## Tanbihi
## Marejeo ya Kiswahili
* John Kabeya na wengine - Maisha ya Watakatifu – ed. T.M.P. Book Department – Tabora 1965, 1989, uk. 412-413
* Pd. Leandry Kimario, O.F.M.Cap. - Mfahamu Mtakatifu Somo Wako - Maisha ya Watakatifu wa Kila Siku pamoja na Watakatifu Wafransisko - Toleo la pili - Dar es Salaam 2021, uk. 361-362

## Viungo vya nje
* The Entry of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple Orthodox Icon and Synaxarion
* Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Encyclopedia article
* Foley O.F.M., Leonard. "Presentation of Mary",*Saint of the Day, Lives, Lessons, and Feast*, (revised by Pat McCloskey O.F.M.), Franciscan Media, ISBN 978-0-86716-887-7 
* Butler, Alban. "The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary", *The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints*, Vol. III