Holy Family

The Feast of the Holy Family is reminiscent of Jesus, his mother Mary and his (drag-) father of Joseph of Nazareth. Images from the Christmas story contained at least since the Middle Ages almost always images of the Holy Family, often supplemented by Anna - after apocryphal gospels of Mary, the mother - and Elizabeth, in the Gospel of Luke (1, 36) with Maria and was related to the tradition than her cousin is.

The "Holy Family" is a reduction of the earlier depictions of the Holy family. The veneration of the "Holy Family" was reinforced in the 17th Century, in the 19th Century took them from Canada from around the world boom, 1844 in Liege was a "Brotherhood of the Holy Family, founded in 1861 the" Association of the Christian family, "by Pope Leo XIII. strongly encouraged and has been distributed worldwide. In the social upheaval of the early industrialization of the Catholic Church wanted the value of family stress, she presented as a model in mind and encouraged their worship.

As the festival was the veneration of the Holy Family from 1893 to the request on 3 Sunday after Epiphany celebration, Pope Benedict XV. resulted in 1920, the celebration for the entire Catholic Church on 1 Sunday after Epiphany A. Since 1969, it will be on the Sunday after Christmas celebrated, if not a Sunday in the Weihnachtsoktav falls, it will be on 30 December perpetrated.