the Annunciation
noun
: March 25 celebrated as a Christian festival in memory of the announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would be the mother of Christ
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The bill, which would ban semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, has strong support from families impacted by the Annunciation school shooting.
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Beret Leone, CBS News, 14 May 2026
Safe school measures have been one of the Republicans’ main asks in response to the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, while Democrats’ main ask has been gun control.
—Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2026
The date of Sarah Mullally’s installation was March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, a symbolic choice for the first female archbishop of Canterbury.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
In a nod to Mullally’s historic appointment, the service is taking place on the Feast of the Annunciation, which marks the moment Mary was told she had been chosen to be the mother of Jesus.
—Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
What happened in the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting?
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
Greek Fest, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church's Milwaukee-area attraction for six decades, will move to the Waukesha County Expo Center grounds in 2026, a cost- and space-motivated move.
—Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 11 Feb. 2026
Just a month earlier, two people died and 21 were injured during a Mass for students at the Catholic Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis.
—James Densley, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
In 2009, in a salvage excavation in Nazareth, there was yet another significant but unexpected discovery in connection with the construction of the International Marian Center, just across the street from the Church of the Annunciation.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
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Beret Leone, CBS News, 14 May 2026
Safe school measures have been one of the Republicans’ main asks in response to the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, while Democrats’ main ask has been gun control.
—Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2026
The date of Sarah Mullally’s installation was March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, a symbolic choice for the first female archbishop of Canterbury.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
In a nod to Mullally’s historic appointment, the service is taking place on the Feast of the Annunciation, which marks the moment Mary was told she had been chosen to be the mother of Jesus.
—Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
What happened in the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting?
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
Greek Fest, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church's Milwaukee-area attraction for six decades, will move to the Waukesha County Expo Center grounds in 2026, a cost- and space-motivated move.
—Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 11 Feb. 2026
Just a month earlier, two people died and 21 were injured during a Mass for students at the Catholic Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis.
—James Densley, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
In 2009, in a salvage excavation in Nazareth, there was yet another significant but unexpected discovery in connection with the construction of the International Marian Center, just across the street from the Church of the Annunciation.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
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