The day celebrates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce the incarnation. Here are eight things to know and to share about the feast day and its significance.

They are part of the story of the Annunciation, when the Virgin Mary was told by the archangel ... think about The Promise made by the angel," Krupp said. Gabriel said that Jesus would live ...

Prior to the angelic salutation by Gabriel to Mary, no angel showed special, indeed deferential, respect to a human being. If the angel Gabriel saluted Mary, it was because he perceived in her a ...

Since Joseph was led to that meeting by a strange figure wrapped in a blue tunic — the angel Gabriel — he just knocks on Mary’s parents’ door and claims Mary as his wife. Highly unlikely ...